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

While both sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease involve mutations in the haemoglobin gene, they are fundamentally different in terms of symptoms, severity, and impact on daily life.

Sickle cell has been overlooked for far too long. Fortunately, there are new breakthroughs in sickle cell treatment that you can't miss.

One-third of all indigenous inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa carry the gene ... of a specific form of sickle-cell disease in which there is homozygosity for the mutation that causes HbS.

Thirty-five states have agreed to participate in a federal pilot program aimed at helping Medicaid patients access costly ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces sickle-cell treatment program in Charleston while assuring SC Sen. Tim Scott that federal ...

They discovered that many of the DNA regions they identified as important for driving blood cell production are also regions known to harbor mutations ... of gene therapy for sickle cell disease ...