How to Use thalassemia in a Sentence

thalassemia

noun
  • Angiogram data was not present for most of the cases, and only a few had tests for thalassemia.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Cesar was diagnosed at birth with thalassemia, a blood disease.
    — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Aliyana has sickle beta plus thalassemia, a form that is often considered milder.
    — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 17 May 2018
  • In 1986, the number of babies born with beta- thalassemia dropped to zero.
    — Krithika Varagur, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • People who suffer from thalassemia or sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are unable to carry oxygen.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • In the most common forms of thalassemia, people who show symptoms have mutations in both copies of the related genes.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Most people with severe anemia from thalassemia require red blood cell transfusions every two to three weeks.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
  • More than a year later those improvements persisted in five subjects with beta thalassemia and two with sickle cell.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 18 Oct. 2021
  • To get around this problem, the researchers behind the new work obtained blood stem cells from patients with β-thalassemia and sickle-cell disease.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In a study of beta thalassemia patients, 54 patients have so far received Casgevy.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Lo tested his approach with a couple who were both carriers of beta-thalassemia mutations.
    — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2010
  • There are various types of thalassemias, or inherited blood disorders, and mine is the most severe.
    — Joelle Zarcone, SELF, 12 July 2019
  • All of these patients entered the study with severe beta-thalassemia that required frequent blood transfusions.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 15 June 2018
  • The first team to achieve a genetic rewrite of sickle cell and of thalassemia, a related blood disorder, will hit the jackpot.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
  • Scientists there have used the tool to treat dozens of people with sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia—two common blood disorders.
    — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The drug is for patients with a blood disorder called beta thalassemia who require regular blood transfusions.
    — WIRED, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Saturday’s results were on the first 10 patients, seven with beta thalassemia and three with sickle cell.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Saturday's results were on the first 10 patients, seven with beta thalassemia and three with sickle cell.
    — Marion Renault, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • This type of gene disruption — called non-homologous end joining — is being used in sickle-cell and thalassemia trials.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • With a slight tweak, Qasim says, this gene therapy could be applied to other cancers, and even genetic diseases like thalassemia.
    — Madhumita Murgia, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2016
  • Take the treatment for beta thalassemia, a genetic disease characterized by a shortage of healthy red blood cells, which leads to anemia.
    — David Wainer, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
  • With the fetal gene now active, the fetal protein restores missing hemoglobin in thalassemia.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 5 Dec. 2020
  • The median age of death of those with beta thalassemia, which is typically diagnosed within a few weeks of birth, is 37.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • For rows with thalassemia or angiogram data present (and none of them had both), the accuracy went up to 71 percent—not great, but not terrible.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Like many other people with beta thalassemia, Shelby would need transfusions once every three weeks, seemingly for the rest of her life.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Beti-cel helped people with the rare blood disease beta-thalassemia stay off blood transfusions by supplying them with a gene needed to ferry oxygen throughout the body.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • In beta thalassemia, the hemoglobin part of red blood cells, which is supposed to pick up oxygen from the lungs and distribute it to the cells in the rest of the body, doesn’t work properly.
    — Time, 6 Aug. 2019
  • For the next three years, the blood transfusions and thalassemia medications were the easiest part of Shelby’s medical care.
    — Brittany Trang, STAT, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Those with beta thalassemia don’t have enough normal hemoglobin, and suffer anemia, fatigue, shortness of breath and other symptoms.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2020
  • As in the alpha thalassemia trial, however, Ayla’s health was still fragile — without a dose of the enzyme every week, her disease would progress.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024

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