Researchers at the New York Blood Center have made a breakthrough in understanding the body’s autoimmune response to sickle ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Notably, sickle ... cell anemia was published in 1910 by a physician named James Herrick. He described a 20 year old college student who was severely anemic. A smear of this patient's blood ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...