A single dose of an off-the-shelf gene-editing therapy leads to durable correction of the sickle cell disease-causing ...

The American Red Cross says one in three Black donors is a match for a sickle cell disease patient. The ideal donors have ...

Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between them? They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia, a ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that affects over 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, of that number, the Centers for ...

Exclusive: Demand for blood to treat the rare disorder has soared by 132% in 10 years ...

Hemolytic anemia can be inherited or acquired. Some of the most common types include sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Your body naturally gets rid of aging or damaged ...

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an inherited disorder of red blood cells. Some parents may learn that their infant has this disorder after prenatal testing. Hospitals also test for SCA after birth as part ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Kalpna Gupta was in a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A base-edited cell therapy increased fetal hemoglobin and reduced sickle hemoglobin. No patients who received ...

NHS Blood and Transplant says there is a growing need for more black community heritage donors with rare blood types to help ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect people of any ethnicity but is much more common among Africans and African Americans. Other ethnic groups with higher rates of SCD include Hispanic Americans from ...