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2. A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health ...

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   By comparison, research earlier this year showed medical expenses for current sickle cell treatments, from birth to age 65, add up to about $1.6 million for women and $1.7 million for men.

3. FDA approves gene therapy for sickle cell disease: 'One ... - AOL

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   Sickle cell is the most common disease to receive approval for gene therapy treatment, following decades of development and years of approvals for therapy for people with rarer conditions.

4. Lovotibeglogene autotemcel - Wikipedia

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   Lovotibeglogene autotemcel, sold under the brand name Lyfgenia, is a lentiviral gene therapy used for the treatment of sickle cell disease.. The most common side effects include stomatitis (mouth sores of the lips, mouth, and throat), low levels of platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells, and febrile neutropenia (fever and low white blood cell count), consistent with chemotherapy and ...

5. FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first ... - AOL

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   December 8, 2023 at 10:19 AM. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a powerful treatment for sickle cell disease, a devastating illness that affects more than 100,000 Americans, the ...

6. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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   114,800 (2015) [8] Sickle cell disease ( SCD ), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders typically inherited. [2] The most common type is known as sickle cell anemia. [2] It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. [2]

7. Sickle cell trait - Wikipedia

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   Hematology. Sickle cell trait describes a condition in which a person has one abnormal allele of the hemoglobin beta gene (is heterozygous ), but does not display the severe symptoms of sickle cell disease that occur in a person who has two copies of that allele (is homozygous ). Those who are heterozygous for the sickle cell allele produce ...

8. New sickle cell treatment sparks feelings of hope and some ...

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   The Food and Drug Administration must decide by Friday whether to approve a new gene-editing therapy to treat sickle cell disease, a debilitating blood disorder that affects at least 100,000 ...

9. Heterozygote advantage - Wikipedia

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   A heterozygote advantage describes the case in which the heterozygous genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygous dominant or homozygous recessive genotype. Loci exhibiting heterozygote advantage are a small minority of loci. [1] The specific case of heterozygote advantage due to a single locus is known as overdominance.