September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

After attending the first annual Global Sickle Cell Disease Congress in Accra, Ghana, in 2010, Obiageli Nnodu returned home to Nigeria with a deep resolve to combat the disease in her own country.

A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a fort dating back millennia in Hosh Issa, uncovering artifacts including a ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The oldest known ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the sword of Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most renowned pharaohs, during recent excavations in ...

The remains of a 3,200-year-old military barracks were recently unearthed in Egypt. The barracks contained a vast collection ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,200-year-old military barracks, filled with artifacts that offer new insights into ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of ... finding a shimmering bronze blade with the intricacies of an ornamental cartouche — the personal emblem used by ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

A team of archeologists in Egypt uncovered a sword with hieroglyphs showing the name of pharaoh Ramesses II. The weapon was ...

Over 300 abnormal hemoglobins — such as sickle cell hemoglobin — have been discovered, most of which are either neutral or harmful to their carriers, and numerous thalassemias, which result ...