Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health care systems.

New gene therapy improves the life of 18-year-old with Sickle Cell Disease which affects 5,000 New Jersey residents living with the condition.

Sickle cell disease patients are dependent on transfusions of healthy red blood cells – over time this causes complications of its own.

Sickle cell disease affects more than 100,000 people in the United States and 8 million people worldwide. Alvin Henry Jr. is the president of the South Louisiana Sickle Cell Association working to ...

'Real-life vampire' considered so dangerous she had sickle placed over her neck and padlocked inside grave A team of archaeologists made a spooky discovery while digging in a cemetery in a village in ...

The NHS is calling for Newcastle donors to fill hundreds of empty appointments this Halloween and beyond, with more donors of Black heritage and people with O negative and B negative blood types ...

These sickle cell researchers and advocates are driving change from labs to global stages, transforming lives in the process.

The modern study of sickle cell disease began with a descendant of that African diaspora after an unusual set of circumstances allowed him to bypass medicine’s racial segregation.

A resurfaced photo authentically depicts U.S. Sen. JD Vance — and 2024 Republican vice presidential running mate — wearing a Soviet T-Shirt.

Vance's team confirmed it was a Halloween costume.The CCCP partially visible underneath the hammer and sickle is Cyrillic and stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (known in English as ...

To safely target BCL11A for sickle cell disease, the team members identified a region within the gene that’s crucial for BCL11A expression specifically in red blood cells.