Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

HHT is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the loss of ... defects in EC cell cycle control may impact normal migration against the blood flow. Alternatively, EC cell cycle defects may ...

In 1997, UAB’s Tim Townes, Ph.D., and Thomas Ryan, Ph.D., created the first practical animal model of sickle cell disease, a hereditary blood disorder. Ten years later, Townes, chair of the UAB ...

Campbell was diagnosed at age 2 with hereditary spherocystosis — an inherited blood disorder that changes the shape of and decreases the life of red blood cells, causing jaundice and an enlarged ...