For most of his 20 years, a New Jersey man knew pain as a daily reality. Now, after a one-time CRISPR gene-editing treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Austin Louis says he is finally ...

More than two years after its approval, only about 60 patients across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe have been treated with the gene-editing therapy. Specialists at four sickle centers told STAT ...

A new breakthrough study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities could explain why patients with the ...

Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...

A newly opened sickle cell treatment center at the Medical University of South Carolina is facing growing criticism from ...

Five seemingly unconnected Black and ethnic minority Londoners discover they have superpowers in the hit Netflix series "Supacell". The link between them? They all suffer from sickle cell anaemia, a ...

Music helps break down barriers. Once students connect emotionally, they are more open to understanding what sickle ...

This month the WISN 12's "Day of Giving" campaign benefits Versiti, a nonprofit dedicated to saving lives through blood donations and furthering the research needed to improve patients' health. One ...

Researchers at Drexel University have identified the physical forces in red blood cells and blood vessels underlying the painful symptoms of sickle cell disease. Their experiment, the first to answer ...

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 can cause various eye-related complications, including retinopathy. If untreated, sickle cell retinopathy can cause permanent vision loss. Treatments include laser therapy and eye ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect people of any ethnicity but is much more common among Africans and African Americans. Other ethnic groups with higher rates of SCD include Hispanic Americans from ...