If parents are considering having a child and are concerned about sickle cell trait, here are some steps they can take. Both parents can undergo a simple blood test called hemoglobin ...

After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, the world’s first sickle cell patient to start commercially licensed gene therapy, was finally discharged from the hospital last Wednesday. One study estimates ...

hemoglobin C (HbC), and typical hemoglobin (HbA). Significant amounts of HbS confirms sickle cell disease, while the presence of both HbA and HbS indicate sickle cell trait. Doctors then confirm a ...

Editas Medicine said Tuesday it will license out or partner its lead sickle cell treatment, the latest shift for a tarantella company that has repeatedly switched direction and leadership since ...

It is one of the most fundamental questions in science: how can lifeless molecules come together to form a living cell? Bert Poolman, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Groningen, has been ...

A new study finds that preschool-aged children with sickle cell disease (SCD) who live in food deserts and have limited access to transportation are at greater risk for acute complications and ...

Staff lined the hallway, cheering and waving noisemakers. He had just become the first patient to receive a gene therapy for sickle cell since it was approved — a therapy that is expected to ...

In the wake of Pfizer’s voluntary market withdrawal of the popular sickle cell disease therapy, BioSpace looks at five investigational drugs currently making their way through the pipeline. “[Oxbryta] ...

He aims to understand life by trying to reconstruct it; he is building simplified artificial versions of biological systems that can be used as components for a synthetic cell. Six Dutch research ...

Crimson Bow Sickle Cell Initiative has empowered 250 sickle cell patients with skills and grants during its Project Empower a Warrior 3.0 themed “Health and Wealth: Balancing Entrepreneurship in ...

Memory issues. Difficulty focusing. Depression. Anxiety. Fatigue. Brandon was pretty sure he knew why: the cell tower a quarter-mile behind his shop and all the electromagnetic radiation it ...