​​When both parents carry SCT, each child has a 50% chance of inheriting the trait and a 25% chance of developing the disease. This is why genetic counselling must be recognized as an integral part of ...

Ex vivo cellular system that accurately replicates sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia characteristics is a highly sought-after goal in the field of erythroid biology. In this study, we present the ...

Ahead of World Sickle Cell Day, Apollo Hospitals Navi Mumbai reported the successful bone marrow transplant of a 33-year-old ...

More than a century after sickle cell disease was first diagnosed, the inherited blood disorder appears to be on the verge of a cure. That progress was kick-started, in part, by the Doris Duke ...

The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital is one of only nine centers nationwide authorized to use the newly approved CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease in patients 12 ...

“Think of the blood vessels like a city highway,” says Elizabeth Margolskee, MD, MPH, a clinical pathologist and an associate professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine at the Perelman ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients with sickle cell disease are not using disease-modifying therapies. DMT use increased nearly 10% ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of painful and life-threatening genetic disorders that affect hemoglobin, the major protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells. It occurs in nearly 100,000 ...

Avascular necrosis is the breakdown and death of bone tissue due to insufficient blood supply. It’s a common complication of sickle cell disease, but early diagnosis and treatment can help slow ...

There is no clear path for African patients to get access to the treatments, which have multimillion-dollar price tags and are highly complex to manufacture and deliver. By Rebecca Robbins and ...