The team, from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH, describes the innovative device - a microfluidic platform with a computer algorithm that does the math - in a paper published in the journal Technology.
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. People with the disease have abnormal hemoglobin - the protein that carries oxygen - in their red blood cells. The abnormal hemoglobin is called sickle hemoglobin.
