sickle-cell anaemia

British  

noun

1. a hereditary haemolytic anaemia, occurring in Black populations, and caused by mutant haemoglobin. The red blood cells become sickle-shaped. It is characterized by fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, leg ulcers, etc

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Example Sentences

Some blood disorders, such as sickle-cell anaemia and beta thalassemia, fit the bill.

From The Guardian

Today CRISPR/Cas9 is a common tool in biochemistry and molecular biology labs - used to make crops more resistent to drought or develop novel treatments of hereditary diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia.

From Reuters

Because many heritable human diseases — sickle-cell anaemia, for example — can be caused by single-letter changes to DNA, base editing is an attractive approach for treating these disorders.

From Nature

Gene therapies are showing promising results for people with sickle-cell anaemia, one of the world’s most prevalent genetic disorders.

From Nature

David Sanchez appears in the documentary: he has sickle-cell anaemia, which could one day be addressed using gene editing.Credit:

From Nature