IN 1955 Rucknagel et al. 1 described a new abnormal hemoglobin in a Negro family in North Carolina. This hemoglobin, designated "I", migrated more rapidly than normal hemoglobin on filter-paper ...

PORTLAND, Ore. & MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hemex Health announced a major enhancement to its Gazelle platform that allows its Hb Variant test to detect beta thalassemia disease and trait in ...

Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder affecting the hemoglobin synthesis. Hemoglobin is an oxygen carrying component of the red blood cells and it has two proteins- alpha and beta. In Thalassemia ...

A hemoglobin electrophoresis test is a blood test used to measure and identify the different types of hemoglobin in your bloodstream. Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells responsible for ...

HYDROPS fetalis associated with hemoglobin Barts is believed to represent the homozygous state of α thalassemia. Ten cases occurring in Chinese families in Indonesia, Malaya and Hong Kong, 1 in a ...

Researchers from Mahidol University have developed a rapid, high-throughput screening method for prevention and control of thalassemia. The related report by Munkongdee et al, "Rapid diagnosis of ...

For the second time, researchers have used the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a severe genetic disease, this time the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, which causes life-threatening anemia. French ...

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Credit: Sanguina AnemoCheck Home is a single-use, disposable diagnostic test designed to measure hemoglobin levels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared AnemoCheck Home, an at-home ...