Tag: Sickle-cell anaemia

How subpar treatment options allow sickle cell disease to persist | Explained

Posted on By admin

When five-year-old Suraj was debilitated with a persistent fever, his family took him to the district hospital in Nuapada in western Odisha. The hospital directed them to the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Burla in Sambalpur, around 250 km from their village. At the Institute, Suraj underwent a diagnostic test…

Read More “How subpar treatment options allow sickle cell disease to persist | Explained” »

Science

With CRISPR poised to revolutionise therapy, a pause to consider ethical issues

Posted on By admin

“We will each write a ghost story”, said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to. And so on a cold and rainy supposedly summer night in 1816, four friends inspired by German ghost stories, gathered to write one. Among them, a young Mary Shelley, consumed by the idea of creating a story that would “curdle…

Read More “With CRISPR poised to revolutionise therapy, a pause to consider ethical issues” »

Science