Sickle Cell Disease

In 1910, Dr. James B. Herrick published Western medical literature's first description of a person with sickle cell anemia. Soon, other physicians confirmed the characteristic feature of the disease: elongated red blood cells. Within 30 years, scientists had learned about the cause of sickle cell anemia: an abnormal form of hemoglobin. This book explores the discovery of how a single mutation in hemoglobin multiplies into the many symptoms of sickle cell anemia. The book investigates treatments that help individuals manage symptoms and examines how, one day, gene therapy and stem cell therapy may bring about a cure for the disease. Book jacket.Jones, Phill is the author of 'Sickle Cell Disease', published 2008 under ISBN 9780791095874 and ISBN 0791095878.