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Is you kiss do you get sickle cell disease?
No. Sickle Cell is not an infectious disease, but is genetic.
Is sickle cell disease a blood cancer?
No, sickle cell disease is not cancerous.
What genetic disorder results in abnormally shaped blood?
Spherocytosis
How can sickle-cell disease be treated?
Stem cell or bone marrow transplants are the only cure for sickle cell disease
What is the causative agent of sickle cell?
Sickle cell disease is caused when someone inherits sickle shaped hemoglobin. It is a disease that can be managed, but not cured.
Why are red blood cells sickle shaped in a person with sickle cell disease?
Sickle cell is common in people from tropical areas where malaria is prevalent. Malaria can not survive on blood cells that are sickle shaped, so when populations were being killed off by malaria, those with sickle cell were surviving and passing on the sickle cell gene.
Is sickle cell anemia a point mutation?
An example of point-mutation is sickle-cell anemia. Sickle-cell disease is hereditary.
How do doctors diagnose sickle cell disease?
bone marrow transplant is the only known cure of sickle cell disease.
What is a sickle cell project proposal?
A proposal for a project investigating sickle cell disease.
Is sickle cell disease a chromosomal abnormality?
sickle cell is an autosomal recessive disorder
Can a disease cure a disease For example Can Cancer be cured by Sickle Cell Anemia?
well no cancer can not be cured by sickle celled anemia because sickle cell is the abnormalty of the shape of the cell.
Is sickle cell anemia an deficiency disease?
The sickle cell anaemia is not a deficiency disease. It is a hereditary disease caused by defective gene in both the parents.
