Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these personalized treatments faster, cheaper, and available to far more patients.

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) supported the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers (NASCC) in ...

Children as young as two with sickle cell disease can now receive Casgevy, the gene therapy that edits a patient’s own stem ...

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) supported the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers (NASCC) in developing new national standards to improve how clinicians identify and manage ...

A Nashville doctor helped pioneer an FDA approved "state-of-the-art" gene-editing therapy that could be a cure for painful and deadly sickle cell disease.

Doctors may carry out blood tests, prenatal screenings, and various other tests to assess a person’s symptoms and diagnose sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that affects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sickle cell disease reshapes healthy round blood cells into a sickled C-shape. As these sticky cells clump up, they can block ...

People with sickle cell trait — those who have one sickle cell gene but do not experience sickle cell disease — may need specific laboratory monitoring for blood sugar in order to detect and treat pre ...

September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

The study failure costs Agios a chance to one-up Novo Nordisk and represents yet another setback in a disease that’s ...

Sickle cell disease causes premature aging of blood stem cells, which scientists may be able to address with a special class ...

Agios Pharma has said it will halt clinical development of tebapivat, a PK activator that had reached phase 2 testing in ...