CRISPR Therapeutics, whose CEO is Samarth Kulkarni, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals earned the first U.S. Food and Drug ...

In what she called a shock, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye learned some parents give birth to children with sickle cell. Then ...

Exome sequencing (ES) is commonly used to diagnose Mendelian disorders, which occur when pathogenic variant(s) in a gene are ...

You’ve likely heard people mention that they have inherited certain health conditions from their family. These are known as ...

Kennedy gave roughly five minutes of remarks to a packed ballroom in the Francis Marion Hotel, mainly focusing on progress in widening treatment access for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder ...

Kennedy Jr. said 35 states have agreed to participate in a federal pilot program aimed at helping Medicaid patients access costly gene therapies for sickle cell disease. The states represent about ...

CHARLESTON — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a landmark initiative to expand access to cutting-edge treatments for sickle cell disease, a genetic blood disorder that ...

Let’s take a deep breath and talk about something that hits close to home for many of us, especially in the Black community: Sickle Cell Disease. If you or someone you love lives with sickle cell, you ...

Crispr Therapeutics is an emerging gene editing company focused on the development of Crispr/Cas9-based therapeutics. The company's proprietary platform specializes in clustered regularly interspaced ...

Long-term treatment with hydroxyurea reduces emergency department visits and days spent in the hospital for children with sickle cell anemia, the most common and usually the most severe form of sickle ...

Sickle cell disease is more serious and can lead to problems such as organ damage, strokes and anemia. By contrast, those with sickle cell trait “typically live normal lives,’’ according to ...