How to Use sickle cell in a Sentence

sickle cell

noun
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  • Or whether Miles Davis would have been Miles Davis with sickle cell.
    — Curt Schleier Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Her son turned to street drugs to ease his sickle cell symptoms and died at age 20.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • About one in 365 Black children are born with sickle cell.
    — Rachel Ryan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2021
  • It's been there so long that the human genome has evolved to cope with the parasites, in the form of sickle cell disease.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • People in any location can have a sickle cell crisis, at any time of the day or day of the week.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 7 July 2021
  • Decades ago, 60% of newborns with sickle cell disease died before the age of 20.
    — Kim Smith-Whitley, STAT, 31 Oct. 2021
  • My Friend Jen and one of the UK’s leading sickle cell ambassadors.
    — Wunmi Bakare, Essence, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But sickle cell doesn’t scare me nor deter me from living my life.
    — Brianna Arps, Essence, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Others are in the works for sickle cell anemia and Type 2 diabetes.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • According to the post, the slide was a gift from the Make-A-Wish foundation for 7-year-old Jacob, who has sickle cell disease.
    — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 16 July 2021
  • In none of the deaths examined by the Times did the person have actual sickle cell disease.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
  • Burke thanks Noah for his service and promises the world’s best medicine for his younger brother, who has sickle cell anemia.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • Over time, sickle cell damages organs and leads to early death.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • About one in 13 Black or African-American babies are born with sickle cell trait.
    — oregonlive, 9 May 2022
  • The patients will still have sickle cell disease on the other side of the intervention.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The first two gene therapies for sickle cell disease could win approval as soon as late this year.
    — Stephanie Nolen Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1970s, few children with sickle cell disease survived to adulthood.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • So far treating sickle cell via base pair editing has only been shown to work in mice, not humans.
    — Leah Rosenbaum, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • This did not happen in the sickle cell trial, Bluebird suggests.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Most of those impacted by sickle cell disease are Black.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
  • That includes an 8-year-old girl from Panama who died in May and had arrived with a heart condition and sickle cell anemia.
    — Paul J. Weber, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Watch that story in the video below: Could gene therapy cure sickle cell anemia?
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Approximately 1 in 13 Black Americans born in the US have the sickle cell trait.
    — Brittany Trang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2021
  • Bluebird also plans to submit its third gene therapy — for treating sickle cell disease — to the FDA in the first quarter of 2023.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The Ranger closed the case about nine months later, on learning that the medical examiner had ruled that Mr. Miller’s death was caused by a sickle cell crisis.
    — New York Times, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The staff also mishandled records showing the girl had a heart condition and sickle cell anemia.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • All blood from Black donors also is screened for the trait for sickle cell disease, and blood that can be given to those patients is stored separately.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2022
  • This blood drive is being held to raise awareness for sickle cell disease, officials said.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Black babies have a higher infant mortality rate and are far more likely to be born with the sickle cell trait, a 1 in 13 chance, according to the CDC.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • That painful crisis is all too familiar to Amy Diawara, 27, who has had sickle cell disease her entire life.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023

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