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

Despite reports of a sickle cell patient being cured by gene therapy, columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye explains why she remains skeptical.

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

David Liu couldn’t sleep after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the first clinical trial based on his research.

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease.

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 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients. The booklet ...

The quality of life of patients with sickle cell anemia is severely compromised similar to or even worse than patients with other chronic diseases such as arthritis. Patients who responded to ...

Bhopal: Governor Mangubhai Patel inaugurated the genetic analysis laboratory and DNA sequencer machine at BMHRC's sickle cell anaemia competence centre. He also launched a seminar titled "Genetic ...

(KOLN) - Groundbreaking advancements in Sickle Cell treatment are changing and saving ... hoping to bring a different therapy that uses a DNA-editing bacteria technology called CRISPR.

Riley, Jr. Park, home of the Charleston RiverDogs. Sickle cell anemia disproportionately impacts minority communities, with patients often requiring regular blood transfusions. The effectiveness ...

Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: I was recently at the American Red Cross to donate blood and was given interesting material on the need for Black blood donors for sickle cell anemia patients.