Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

How do mutations happen, and how do they influence the future of a species? Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Kelsi Victorian, 30, has been in and out of the hospital her whole life dealing with a disease that affects millions in the world.

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 cell disease left them with ...

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited haemoglobinopathy in Tanzania, with 11 000– 14 000 children born with the ...

The UAB Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center brings together scholars and researchers working in the forefront of basic, translational and clinical research, with the overarching goals to discover new ...

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 ...