What does living well with sickle cell disease look like? Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye shares her perspective as a patient ...

Sickle cell anemia (SCA) causes red blood cells to become stiff and C-shaped, and they can stick together. This reduces oxygen delivery and disrupts blood flow. Common symptoms include fatigue, ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

Sickle cell thalassemia occurs when you inherit both a sickle cell gene mutation and a thalassemia gene mutation. Symptoms are similar to other types of sickle cell disease but can vary depending on ...

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 ...

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One of Audrey Patricia Smith's early defining memories of sickle cell disease was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1959, when she was 12 years old and visiting the ocean with family friends. Before ...

Gene editing has delivered remarkable results against sickle cell disease. Now researchers are working to make these personalized treatments faster, cheaper, and available to far more patients.

Gene therapy has given sickle cell disease what medicine has long promised but rarely delivered: the possibility of a cure. Yet the slow uptake of Casgevy and Lyfgenia shows that even dazzling science ...