Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...
SCD gene therapy approaches using CRISPR, gene therapy, and base editing show different stem cell outcomes in a mouse study.
Reeves is an associate professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan and the principal investigator of the Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection program. In December 2023, a ...
1 Department of Internal Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, United States 2 Department of Adult Sickle Cell Practice, NYC Health+ Hospitals/Kings County, Brooklyn, NY, ...
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say. They credit state-of-the-art genetic treatment. Medical history made at Cohen Children's Medical ...
Contrary to misconceptions among medical professionals and patients alike, individuals born with sickle cell trait (SCT) show no risk of experiencing the acute pain crises known to occur with sickle ...
As social media evolves, celebrities have quickly become highly influential people not just because of the attention their high-stakes careers put on them, but also because they have used their social ...
Funmi Dasaolu receives funding from The National Institute for Health and Care Research. Stephen Hibbs receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. In December 2023, 34-year-old Dave Onawelo told staff ...
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 ...
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 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 ...