In hereditary spherocytosis, mutations in red blood cell membrane proteins result in an overly rigid, misshapen cell whose deformability when traveling through the blood vessels is lost, causing severe anemia and splenomegaly, ...

Skin cancer is a disease of the twenty-first century since, unfortunately, being tan is associated to be healthy and good looking. UV radiation produces one of the most aggressive kinds of skin cancer: melanoma; once the ...

Red blood cell disorders represent the most common single-gene defects and pose a major public health problem, particularly in tropical countries, occurring with high frequency. Their diagnose can sometimes be difficult ...

The worldwide incidence of skin cancer has risen rapidly in the last decades, becoming one in three cancers nowadays. Currently, a person has a 4% chance of developing melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer, ...

Hemoglobinopathies represent the most common single-gene defects in the world and pose a major public health problem, particularly in tropical countries, where they occur with high frequency. Diagnosing hemoglobinopathies ...

Dermatologists are starting to make use of Computer-Aided Diagnosis based on deep learning algorithms, which can provide them with an objective judgement during evaluation of equivocal lesions. DL algorithms can be trained ...