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Özge Özkaya, PhD

Özge has a MSc. in Molecular Genetics from the University of Leicester and a PhD in Developmental Biology from Queen Mary University of London. She worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Leicester for six years in the field of Behavioural Neurology before moving into science communication. She worked as the Research Communication Officer at a London based charity for almost two years.

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Study Suggests Ways of Improving Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease

Researchers in Alicante, Spain, established levels of normality for hemoglobin A in newborn screening by taking into account factors such as the babies being born prematurely and their mothers having immigrated from an area of the world where the prevalence of genetics mutations causing defects in the hemoglobin gene is high.