Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Recently, a 12-year-old boy became the first patient with sickle ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Current gene therapies to treat sickle cell disease are complex, time-consuming, and are sometimes linked to serious side effects like infertility or blood cancer. To address these challenges, Johns ...

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 (SCD) is a genetic disorder caused by a single point mutation in the β-globin gene, leading to the production of abnormal hemoglobin. Patients with SCD lacking a compatible donor ...

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 ...

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Because the sickle cell gene mutation is believed to have evolved as a protection against malaria, a deadly parasitic infection spread by mosquitos, most common in Africa and Asia, Black people are at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TEXAS (FOX 44) – The genetic mutation is found in 1 and 365 African Americans and effects over 100,000 Americans each year. Sickle ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Sickle cell disease was ...