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 ...

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 ...

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

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Researchers at Golisano Children’s Hospital have received a multi-million-dollar grant to lead a ...