How to Use sickle cell in a Sentence

sickle cell

noun
  • But sickle cell doesn’t scare me nor deter me from living my life.
    — Brianna Arps, Essence, 23 Apr. 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
  • There are many issues with sickle cell disease, and access to care is a big one.
    — al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • To have sickle cell disease, a person must be born with two sickle cell genes.
    — Maggie Aime, Msn, Health, 20 Sep. 2024
  • That’s not easy with a disease as destructive as sickle cell.
    — Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Over time, sickle cell damages organs and leads to early death.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Other times, an adult living with sickle cell disease.
    — Dave Oates, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Or whether Miles Davis would have been Miles Davis with sickle cell.
    — Curt Schleier Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Travail With Us will host two sickle cell awareness events.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Brown, who has the sickle cell trait and has missed eight games over the past three seasons, was the player with the health red flags.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Trump told Kadu, who was born with sickle cell disease and had a bone marrow transplant.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The study aims to recruit up to 45 adults with severe sickle cell disease.
    — Michael Nedelman and Minali Nigam, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • In fact, to date, this has helped over 50 persons living with sickle cell disease!
    — Fyodor Urnov, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The 19-year-old was born with sickle cell disease, which makes his red blood cells crescent-shaped and sticky.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In cases of a sickle cell bone marrow transplant, the best results come from a sibling.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This did not happen in the sickle cell trial, Bluebird suggests.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Miller’s father, Willie Miller, said none of his children had sickle cell anemia.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • People living with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are crescent shaped due to a gene mutation.
    — Marissa Evans, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The patients will still have sickle cell disease on the other side of the intervention.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Others are in the works for sickle cell anemia and Type 2 diabetes.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Maryland lawmakers have the power to stand up for the thousands of sickle cell warriors.
    — Teanika D. Hoffman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Decades ago, 60% of newborns with sickle cell disease died before the age of 20.
    — Kim Smith-Whitley, STAT, 31 Oct. 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
  • And fewer than 1 in 10 sickle cell patients end up finding a suitable donor.
    — Sandy Banks Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Gene therapy is now being used for certain cancers and sickle cell anemia.
    — Lauren Pastrana, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The agency has cleared Oxbryta to treat the blood disorder sickle cell disease.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2019

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