How to Use sickle cell in a Sentence
sickle cell
noun-
Or whether Miles Davis would have been Miles Davis with sickle cell.
— Curt Schleier Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021 -
Her son turned to street drugs to ease his sickle cell symptoms and died at age 20.
— Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023 -
Brown, who has the sickle cell trait and has missed eight games over the past three seasons, was the player with the health red flags.
— Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018 -
About one in 365 Black children are born with sickle cell.
— Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2021 -
It's been there so long that the human genome has evolved to cope with the parasites, in the form of sickle cell disease.
— Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022 -
People in any location can have a sickle cell crisis, at any time of the day or day of the week.
— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 7 July 2021 -
The study aims to recruit up to 45 adults with severe sickle cell disease.
— Michael Nedelman and Minali Nigam, CNN, 30 July 2019 -
Decades ago, 60% of newborns with sickle cell disease died before the age of 20.
— Kim Smith-Whitley, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021 -
My Friend Jen and one of the UK’s leading sickle cell ambassadors.
— Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 6 Sep. 2022 -
There are many issues with sickle cell disease, and access to care is a big one.
— al, 5 Jan. 2020 -
But sickle cell doesn’t scare me nor deter me from living my life.
— Brianna Arps, Essence, 23 Apr. 2021 -
Almost one-half of sickle cell patients die in their 40s.
— courant.com, 11 May 2018 -
Trump told Kadu, who was born with sickle cell disease and had a bone marrow transplant.
— Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 14 Feb. 2020 -
In fact, to date, this has helped over 50 persons living with sickle cell disease!
— Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Others are in the works for sickle cell anemia and Type 2 diabetes.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023 -
According to the post, the slide was a gift from the Make-A-Wish foundation for 7-year-old Jacob, who has sickle cell disease.
— Michael Hollan, Fox News, 16 July 2021 -
In none of the deaths examined by the Times did the person have actual sickle cell disease.
— BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021 -
Burke thanks Noah for his service and promises the world’s best medicine for his younger brother, who has sickle cell anemia.
— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 June 2023 -
That’s not easy with a disease as destructive as sickle cell.
— Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020 -
Over time, sickle cell damages organs and leads to early death.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023 -
About one in 13 Black or African-American babies are born with sickle cell trait.
— oregonlive, 9 May 2022 -
The patients will still have sickle cell disease on the other side of the intervention.
— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023 -
The first two gene therapies for sickle cell disease could win approval as soon as late this year.
— Stephanie Nolen Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023 -
In the 1970s, few children with sickle cell disease survived to adulthood.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023 -
Miller’s father, Willie Miller, said none of his children had sickle cell anemia.
— Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024 -
It’s been almost a year since the FDA approved one of the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.
— Brittney Melton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024 -
So far treating sickle cell via base pair editing has only been shown to work in mice, not humans.
— Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 2 June 2021 -
The agency has cleared Oxbryta to treat the blood disorder sickle cell disease.
— Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019 -
The pain of a sickle cell crisis can be worse than the pain of childbirth, according to the National Institutes of Health.
— Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017 -
While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community.
— Dominique Fluker, Essence, 19 Sep. 2024
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