As Uganda rolls out mandatory nationwide screening of newborns for sickle cell disease this month, a gene therapy celebrated ...

CRISPR gene therapy Casgevy can nearly eliminate sickle cell crises, but difficult stem‑cell collection is delaying access ...

Doctors say new gene-based treatments could offer long-term relief — and possible cures — for people living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease has long shortened lives in the United States, ...

This story is the first in an occasional series following Louisiana’s first patients to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease. On the third floor of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s first medicine based on CRISPR gene-editing technology, a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease that delivers a potential cure for ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Groundbreaking advancements in Sickle Cell treatment are changing and saving lives nationwide. For decades, patients with Sickle Cell Disease have lived with pain, complications ...

CHANGING THE LIVES OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS. ONE LOCAL MAN IS FINALLY GETTING RELIEF FROM THE CRIPPLING PAIN HE’S EXPERIENCED FOR YEARS. OUR JESSICA BROWN IS HERE WITH HIS STORY. PATIENTS TELL ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

Evelyn Quartey carries the sickle cell trait, as did her ex-husband and first son, Emmanuel, who passed away from Sickle Cell Disease in 2009 at 7. Her younger son Gerald had been diagnosed with the ...