Sickle Cell Disease is an awful genetic disease that disproportionally affects black people. It's caused by a single-point mutation in DNA, which results in a modified hemoglobin protein, differing by ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard showed how prime editing can correct the mutation that causes sickle cell disease in a potentially ...

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

Sickle cell diseases arises from hemoglobin protein mutations. The mutation causes red blood cells to form a sickle shape rather than a round one. One study suggests that this mutation could be ...

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic condition much more common among Black people in the United States. Although it affects all races the same, Black people may face unique challenges due to disparities ...

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 ...

IGIB and the Serum Institute of India aims to make sickle cell treatment accessible to India's tribal communities, where the ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Vernon Ingram, whose landmark discovery on the cause of sickle cell anemia made him a pioneer in the field of molecular biology, died in Boston on Aug.

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood disorders that affect a person’s levels of hemoglobin, the protein in ...

Sickle cell anemia causes sickle-shaped cells to block blood flow to the lungs, leading to acute chest syndrome. Common treatment methods involve oxygen supplementation and pain management. Sickle ...