A cutting-edge gene therapy has been approved for NHS use for some patients with severe sickle cell disease. Casgevy, also ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions in which red blood cells are not shaped as they should be. Red blood cells normally look like round discs. But in sickle cell disease, they're shaped like ...

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.

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 ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of conditions in which red blood cells are not shaped as they should be. Red blood cells normally look like round discs. But in sickle cell disease, they're shaped like ...