Aaron Scott, of Fayetteville, is the first in North Carolina to receive a new FDA-approved therapy which uses the patient's own cells to relieve the pain of sickle cell disease.

One of the major contributors to complications in SCD is oxidative stress, a condition where the body’s antioxidant defense ...

In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 babies are born with the condition each year. It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person’s DNA ...

Learn how CASGEVY, the first NHS-approved CRISPR gene therapy, treats sickle cell disease through a revolutionary genetic ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a complex and debilitating genetic blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, ...

Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can potentially cure sickle cell disease, an inherited and painful blood disorder, but ...

Esther Nkemakolam runs her fingers through kinetic sand and sings a “Moana” song as UPMC Children’s Hospital nurse Taylor ...

A new bone marrow transplant method can help cure sickle cell disease and is more accessible than highly expensive gene ...

A new type of bone marrow transplant can cure sickle cell disease with only half of the donor's cell proteins matching, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A blood disorder that primarily affects minority communities, sickle cell disease changes the shape and ...

A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer centers.