Sickle cell disease is one of the most common genetic blood disorders in the world. It affects millions globally, with the ...

A researcher at Duke University, speaks out after her NIH grant for sickle cell research was terminated. The $750,000 funding ...

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University ...

"Vertex reports long-term results for Casgevy in sickle cell and thalassaemia" was originally created and published by ...

Extreme pain, known as a pain crisis, is one of the hallmark symptoms of SCD. With frequent hospitalizations, chronic pain ...

A study by the Centre for Policy Impact in Global Health revealed that over 30 per cent of people with SCD in Nigeria ...

Over a hundred sickle cell warriors and their families turned out in support for World Sickle Cell Day at West Oakland’s ...

Families of those who have sickle cell disease in the Philadelphia area are pushing for more research and a cure.

Sickle cell affects millions of people around the world, including about 100,000 in the U.S. A genetic defect causes bone marrow to produce a defective version of the protein called hemoglobin.

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by Dr. Jennifer Doudna who won the Nobel Prize for the life saving technology.

Three-quarters of the world’s sickle cell patients are in sub-Saharan Africa. Several million of them are believed to be sick enough that they would be eligible for the new therapies, compared ...

Sickle cell disease has no specific age and affects children like Cali Cole, who was born with the disease and was miraculously cured at four years old, thanks to the help of her younger sister ...