Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara. At the time, this was not a desert; it was a green belt of savannas, woodlands, lakes and rivers. Bands of hunter-gatherers thrived ...

Exa-cel, a new CRISPR-based treatment, modifies the genes of the patient's stem cells to induce them to produce fetal hemoglobin. I have a long-standing interest in sickle cell anemia, a genetic ...

Dr. Vernon Rayford, an internal medicine specialist and pediatrician from Tupelo, Miss., says St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is actively examining a cure for sickle cell anemia. As a St. Jude ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both new FDA-approved medicines offer a potential cure, but they will come with a hefty price tag and it will be years before their long-term effects are clear. Sickle cell disease, a painful ...

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 ...

He's the first in New York to receive the novel treatment and one of the first in the world. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is caused by the homozygous inheritance of a single point mutation in the β globin gene (hemoglobin S) that manifests itself as an anemia with characteristic sickle-shaped ...

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.

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