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.

Jan. 17, 2025 — A new study has found older-looking brains in adults with sickle cell disease, helping to explain the cognitive challenges experienced by such individuals. A brain image from a ...

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 ...

What would it look like to have a successful stem cell transplant? Would it be a cure for my sickle cell disease? It was a decision I could think about making because my sister was a genetic match ...

After creating the first practical animal model for sickle cell disease, Tim Townes's team used it to test an experimental technique that could reframe the debate over stem cell research. Great ...

Can we predict that natural selection will weed out genetic disease over time? Sickle-cell trait haplotype distribution shows the genetic advantages of this mutation. In the deoxygenated ...

Asiawu Imam says the therapy will make a huge difference A gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, with a price tag of £1.65m, is to be offered to patients on the NHS in England.

Beam Therapeutics Inc . (NASDAQ:BEAM), a $2.1 billion market cap pioneer in the field of precision genetic medicines through base editing, is set to present new data from its ongoing BEACON Phase 1/2 ...