sickle
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Units from people with rare blood like Stoddart-Stones are used for patients with the same rare blood who are having an operation or need regular transfusions because of disorders such as sickle cell disease.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
So I’ve always been aware of it, and I’ve lost now four friends to sickle cell.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
"The first gene editing drug approved for a blood disease -- sickle cell anemia -- targets a cell-type specific enhancer."
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025
The biotech said a Phase 3 trial for mitapivat, a drug to treat sickle cell disease, had failed to meet several endpoints.
From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025
They didn’t get the flag either, although Sasha and their friend Michael made a cardboard hammer and sickle not long afterward and hung it on Sasha’s bedroom wall.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
