This story is the first in an occasional series following Louisiana’s first patients to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease. On the third floor of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New ...

Two sickle cell disease researchers will share a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for discoveries that changed the treatment ...

Doctors say new gene-based treatments could offer long-term relief — and possible cures — for people living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease has long shortened lives in the United States, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A 24-year-old Southfield college student has become the first patient in Michigan to receive a new gene therapy that could potentially cure sickle cell disease – marking a ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and millions of people worldwide are living with the disease. But advances in treatment are being made. WRBL News 3 anchor Cameron ...

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DURHAM, N.C. — For 35-year-old Marcus Mitchell, the view out of a hospital window is all too familiar. Born with sickle cell disease, the Andrews High School teacher has endured health scares and ...

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