Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Despite decades of research, the average life expectancy for an American with sickle cell remains about 20 years shorter than ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

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A publicly funded consortium of University of California (UC) researchers and clinicians is one big step closer to realizing a decade-long plan to launch a CRISPR-based gene-editing trial for sickle ...

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center experts will present abstracts at the 66th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition Dec. 7-10 in San Diego. Trial finds AML drug is ...

The discovery, led by researchers at Dana-Farber, could pave the way for interventions to reduce the risk of blood cancers among people with sickle-cell disease. A large-scale genomic analysis, led by ...

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You might have wondered why some people with sickle cell disease seem to live relatively normal lives while others spend half their time in the hospital writhing in agony from pain crises. It’s the ...

Agyemang, has stressed the need for comprehensive support for families affected by sickle cell disease in Ghana.