Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye, a doctor, sorts through the difference between sickle cell anemia and sickle cell disease — and ...

This segment tells the story of a genetic mutation affecting the population of West Africa. Although helpful in preventing malaria, this mutation can also lead to sickle cell anemia.

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

Sickle Cell Disease is an awful genetic disease that disproportionally affects black people. It's caused by a single-point mutation in DNA, which results in a modified hemoglobin protein, differing by ...

These other forms of sickle-cell disease are compound heterozygous states in which the person has only one copy of the mutation that causes HbS and one copy of another abnormal haemoglobin allele.

Sickle cell disease can lead to a severe complication known as acute chest syndrome (ACS), but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood.

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited disorders that affect the hemoglobin, which causes sickle-shaped red blood cells. Learn about the symptoms, causes and treatment.

The thorny history of sickle cell anemia As part of the university's Racism and Repair in the Modern Academy project, Johns Hopkins researchers look inward at the past, present, and future of ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease.

Though Beauzile is the first in New York to successfully undergo sickle cell anemia-curing gene therapy, he's preceded by Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from Washington, DC who received ...

The first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease has been approved in the U.K. , a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the disease.

Sickle cell disease can lead to a severe complication known as acute chest syndrome (ACS), but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. A new study by Mass General Brigham investigators ...