Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment ...

Jayden Wilsey was the first person at Boston Children's Hospital to receive human gene therapy for sickle cell disease after ...

Modern medicine is one step closer to potentially curing sickle cell disease. On the heels of the U.K.'s authorizing the world’s first gene-edited treatment for sickle cell disease on Nov. 16, the U.S ...

The Sickle Cell Disease Treatment Market offers significant opportunities with advancements in gene editing, stem cell therapies, and precision medicine driving innovation. Increased awareness and ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that affects over 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, of that number, the Centers for ...

Federal officials Friday approved two gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease, welcome news for tens of thousands with the inherited blood disorder that causes terrible pain crises and early ...

A specialist from Oman, located at the crossroads of Africa and Asia, explains that his nation serves as a microcosm when it ...

Gene therapy has the potential to dramatically benefit patients with genetic blood disorders, but a small study on participants in a clinical trial for sickle cell disease suggests that a key process ...

Detroit — Pain is familiar and far from predictable for people such as Medjie Pascal-Harris, a Detroiter who lives with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that cuts 20-30 years off the ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...