Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited health condition that slows the flow of red blood cells in your body. For people with SCD, hemoglobin S (a mutated protein that transports oxygen) causes ...

At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we care for adults with sickle cell disease. Along with our local patients, we see many people from farther away, like Alaska. They get most of their care near home, but ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Hemoglobin has played a central role in the understanding of many biochemical and biophysical principles, as Eaton and colleagues point out on page 351 of this issue of Nature Structural Biology.

Volunteers would be matched with research programmes into conditions like sickle cell and diabetes. The gene therapy Casgevy, which will now be offered to some patients in England, could help ...

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...

Adolescence is a transformative phase marked by physical, emotional and social changes. For teenagers with sickle cell disease, these years can be even more challenging due to the impact of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — One of Vanderbilt's latest studies has found a cure for sickle cell disease. Sickle cell is a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood cell proteins.

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...