When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle ... a DNA sequence in BCL11A ...

"Sickle cell disease is a devasting disorder that affects approximately 100,000 people in the U.S., leading to anemia, severe ...

In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 babies are born with the condition each year. It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person's DNA that ...

India has one of the highest prevalences of sickle cell disease in the world ... stem cells from the bone marrow, cutting both DNA strands at the precise location in the BCL11A gene, and infusing ...

A Fayetteville teen is making history in North Carolina after undergoing a new gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Aaron Scott was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth. Sickle cell is a genetic ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe sickle cell pain earlier this month. She is doing what ...