How to Use fetal hemoglobin in a Sentence

fetal hemoglobin

noun
  • His fetal hemoglobin, which lingers for months, may have confused the results.
    — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • The goal became finding ways to increase fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell patients.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • One of the ideas that has been considered for treating these anemias is to reactivate the fetal hemoglobin gene.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • For the sickle-cell patient, the fetal hemoglobin accounted for half her total a year after the procedure.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The sickle cell treatment involves re-activating a fetal gene that produces what is known as fetal hemoglobin.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2019
  • In the first several months of life, levels of fetal hemoglobin taper down and the body starts making adult hemoglobin instead.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • One copy, called fetal hemoglobin, is typically active only in fetuses, shutting down within a few months after birth.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • Those kids had a second mutation that meant their bodies kept making fetal hemoglobin, a protein that usually disappears by age 1.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • There are cases in which fetal hemoglobin production continues into adulthood.
    — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
  • Normally fetal hemoglobin, which provides the developing fetus with oxygen via the blood while in utero, is shut off about six months after birth, and genes for adult hemoglobin are turned on.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • In both cases, the therapy does not shut off a target gene but instead delivers a gene that boosts production of healthy fetal hemoglobin—a gene normally turned off shortly after birth.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • For reasons that are still not fully understood, the medication ramps up production of fetal hemoglobin—the alpha-gamma version of the protein that’s present right after birth.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Among the treatments currently used is a medication called hydroxyurea, which can stimulate the production of fetal hemoglobin.
    — Michael Nedelman and Minali Nigam, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • These gene-editing technologies target the part of the gene that produces fetal hemoglobin, enabling the body to produce high levels of fetal hemoglobin, Hanna said.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The results of the sickle cell trial showed the treatment proved effective in increasing the level of fetal hemoglobin while reducing the level of the sickle hemoglobin.
    — Paul Adepoju, Quartz Africa, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Usually, by about age six months, this leads to complete replacement of fetal hemoglobin with adult hemoglobin, but often in beta thalassemia that replacement is delayed until 3 to 5 years of age.
    — David Warmflash, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
  • While searching for other possible treatments, researchers noticed that sickle cell patients who did well naturally had high levels of fetal hemoglobin — the hemoglobin inside babies when they are born.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The mutation—named after the New Jersey hometown of the first patient identified with the problem in 2011—affects only fetal hemoglobin; babies start making healthy adult hemoglobin within a few months.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 2019

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