Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Scientists have found a potential new gene variant target to treat sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that ...

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

One-third of all indigenous inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa carry the gene, because in areas where malaria is common, there is a fitness benefit in carrying only a single sickle-cell gene ...

But not if you suffer from sickle cell disease, which affects nearly 8 million people worldwide, most in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor Brennan gets to work drawing blood. Esther is back for her monthly blood ...

With approximately 18,000 babies born with sickle cell disease (SCD) annually out of an estimated 896,000 births, Ghana has announced plans to screen every newborn baby for the condition.

In the last year, some drugmakers have pulled back from the sector, including Pfizer, which recently stopped selling its gene ...

A Long Island hospital has successfully treated Sebastien Beauzile, a 21-year-old from Laurelton, with the groundbreaking ...

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