Experts hailed exciting news for some people with sickle cell disease in England as the health watchdog decided to grant ...

A cutting-edge gene therapy has been approved for NHS use for some patients with severe sickle cell disease. Casgevy, also ...

Cycles of infectious disease prevalence and virulence often reflect natural selection. Sickle Cell disease is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes anemia, joint pain, a swollen spleen ...

Around 1,700 people could be eligible for the one-time treatment, which is seen as a less risky alternative to a donor stem ...

Abnormal cells can clog blood vessels, leading to severe pain episodes and restricting oxygen delivery to vital organs ...

These counselors have special training in genetics and can help people decide what is right for them. They can tell you about your chances of having a child with sickle cell disease. They also can ...

The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease—including the gene-editing treatment Casgevy, based on research at Boston Children's Hospital—have been game-changing for the patients who have ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... Cystic fibrosis Chromosomal mutation Inversion One region of a chromosome is flipped and reinserted Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome Deletion ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

She wrote most of her examinations on the hospital bed, yet she came out as one of the brightest graduates the University of ...

January 31, 2025 expert reaction to NICE final draft guidance on exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) for severe sickle cell disease . Scientists comment on final draft guidance fro ...

In 1997, UAB’s Tim Townes, Ph.D., and Thomas Ryan, Ph.D., created the first practical animal model of sickle cell disease, a hereditary blood disorder. Ten years later, Townes, chair of the UAB ...