New Approach To Sickle-Cell Disease Shows Promise In Mice (Medical News Today)

December 8th, 2009 by IvorySauer82


A new genetic approach to treating sickle cell disease is showing promising results in mice, report researchers from Children’s Hospital Boston. By inactivating a gene they previously discovered to be important in the laboratory, they were able to boost production of a healthy fetal form of hemoglobin in the mice, potentially compensating for the defective adult hemoglobin that causes red blood …

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New Approach To Sickle-Cell Disease Shows Promise In Mice (Medical News Today)

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