Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara. At the time, this was not a desert; it was a green belt of savannas, woodlands, lakes and rivers. Bands of hunter-gatherers thrived ...
Gene therapy has the potential to dramatically benefit patients with genetic blood disorders, but a small study on participants in a clinical trial for sickle cell disease suggests that a key process ...
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...
Sickle cell anemia causes pain, fatigue and delayed growth, all because of a lack of enough healthy red blood cells. And yet genetic mutations that cause it - recessive genes for the oxygen-carrying ...
Farrell High School students are raising awareness for an important cause--donating blood for sickle cell anemia.
TEXAS (FOX 44) – The genetic mutation is found in 1 and 365 African Americans and effects over 100,000 Americans each year. Sickle Cell Anemia Disease causes the blood cells to be misshapen and create ...
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...
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How sickle cell changed human evolution

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition ...
More than a century after sickle cell disease was first diagnosed, the inherited blood disorder appears to be on the verge of a cure. That progress was kick-started, in part, by the Doris Duke ...
University of Cincinnati Cancer Center experts will present abstracts at the 66th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition Dec. 7-10 in San Diego. Trial finds AML drug is ...
Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up When Dr. Ambroise Wonkam walked into a panel on medical genetics ...
A new gene therapy for people who can have a stem cell transplant but do not have a suitable donor has been approved.