CRISPR Therapeutics, whose CEO is Samarth Kulkarni, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals earned the first U.S. Food and Drug ...

Despite reports of a sickle cell patient being cured by gene therapy, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye explains why she remains ...

David Liu couldn’t sleep after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first clinical trial based on his research.

In what she called a shock, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye learned some parents give birth to children with sickle cell. Then ...

In a speech Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said 35 states have agreed to participate in a ...

Sickle cell has been overlooked for far too long. Fortunately, there are new breakthroughs in sickle cell treatment that you ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

Exome sequencing (ES) is commonly used to diagnose Mendelian disorders, which occur when pathogenic variant(s) in a gene are ...

Bhopal: Governor Mangubhai Patel inaugurated the genetic analysis laboratory and DNA sequencer machine at BMHRC's sickle cell anaemia competence centre. He also launched a seminar titled "Genetic ...

Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients.

Riley, Jr. Park, home of the Charleston RiverDogs. Sickle cell anemia disproportionately impacts minority communities, with patients often requiring regular blood transfusions. The effectiveness ...

Fewer ED visits per year and fewer hospital days per year seen in association with hydroxyurea use. HealthDay News — For children with sickle cell anemia (SCA), hydroxyurea has sustained ...