As a Black man, I knew about sickle cell all too well. The genetic disease that predominantly affects African and Caribbean people – rendering their blood cells sickle-shaped, leading to ...

But, as Krithika Varagur reports, love doesn’t always accord with the Punnett square. Providing a snapshot of what our “genetic responsibility” could be as prenatal tests proliferate, Varagur sat down ...

Kamini Purushothaman Photo. Biree Andamarian, James Rawlings, Cece Calhoun at Thursday evening's gathering. A panel of doctors lauded the recent approval of CASGEVY, a gene therapy for sickle-cell ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved two gene-based treatments for sickle cell disease, including the first therapy that uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR, opening a new era ...

Those with sickle cell disease in the United States can have a shortened lifespan into their 50s, and even shorter in other countries. Roughly 100,000 Americans currently suffer from sickle cell ...

The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Ltd. and CRISPR Therapeutics.

1st New Jersey patient receives groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease 02:27. For the first time in his life, a young New Jersey man is pain-free thanks to a new gene treatment working ...

An early analysis suggests that a pair of forthcoming treatments for sickle cell disease would be cost-effective even if priced as high as $1.9 million. Skip to Main Content RFK Jr.

A Michigan woman living with sickle cell disease says her life may now be at risk after the CDC disbanded the team responsible for researching safe birth control for people with chronic conditions ...

A Mississippi woman's life has been transformed by a treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. All her symptoms from a disease once thought incurable have disappeared.

"Sickle cell disease was described in modern medicine in 1910, and here we are over 100 years later, and this is the first cure you are seeing," Dr. Jeffrey Lipton said.

Heterozygous is a term used in genetics to describe when two variations of a gene, known as alleles, are paired at the same location (locus) on a chromosome.By contrast, homozygous is when there ...