In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 babies are born with the condition each year. It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person's DNA that ...

How do mutations happen, and how do they influence the future of a species? Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

A toolkit on hydroxyurea was designed to help parents of young children with sickle cell disease feel more confident about choosing treatment.

Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

Examples include mutations that protect HIV-infected individuals, or those with inherited sickle cell disease, from developing symptoms. The mechanisms behind some protective mutations have ...

“Through his work, we’ve come to understand how red blood cells work, how they develop in the body, and, particularly, how mutations lead to sickle cell disease.” Sickle cell disease stems ...

Feb. 25, 2025 — A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer ... Brains of People With ...

Governor Gavin Newsom announced March 21 that the Department of Health Care Services submitted an application to the federal Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare & ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...