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 ...

For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

A 21-year-old man has become the first person in New York—and one of the first in the world—to be cured of sickle cell anemia ...

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 disease is a hereditary condition, which means a person inherits it from their biological parents. The condition occurs when a person inherits two copies of the hemoglobin beta (HBB) gene ...

How is it that you’re alive? It’s a question that we rarely ask ourselves—but it’s one that has a definite answer. We all know our heart pumps life-giving oxygen throughout our bodies. How does that ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Vernon Ingram, whose landmark discovery on the cause of sickle cell anemia made him a pioneer in the field of molecular biology, died in Boston on Aug.