Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...
When Dr. Ambroise Wonkam walked into a panel on medical genetics out of curiosity, he had no idea it would shape the course of his career. Born in Cameroon, Wonkam has dedicated his career to studying ...
Helen M. Ranney, 89, a physician who was among the first to explore the genetics of sickle-cell disease and scored a number of firsts for women in her profession, including being the first to head a ...
New research reveals how complex interactions between genetic variants can explain different outcomes in disorders like ...
Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...
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The Blood Disorder That Gene Editing Finally Began to Cure
In 2024, regulators approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR-based therapy to treat sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia — a ...
(CNN) — At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium ...
Mistrust of medicine clouds possibility of treatment for sickle-cell. In our nation’s history, genetics and race are tragically bound together. Understanding this history is crucial to understanding ...
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