About 100,000 Americans, mostly Black, have sickle cell disease, shortening lifespans, delaying puberty, damaging spleens and ...

Patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) and persistent albuminuria (PA) exhibited significantly higher levels of urinary ...

Sickle cell trait (SCT) differs vastly from sickle cell disease. SCT is a genetic condition when someone inherits one sickle ...

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — Ten-year-old Saladin "Bam" Anderson is a sickle cell patient who held his second Sickle Cell Awareness Month ...

Stroke rates continue to rise among adults and children living with sickle cell disease, despite new standards of care meant ...

The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell disease (SCD) despite the Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP) establishing standards of ...

It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.

The incidence of stroke continues to increase for adults and children living with sickle cell disease (SCD), despite the ...

September Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. While many people are familiar with sickle cell anemia, sickle cell traits have also plagued our community. Sickle cell trait (SCT) is an inherited blood ...

Pauling dubbed sickle cell anemia a “molecular disease.” That framing effectively launched the biomedical era of newly powerful laboratory research. Mark T. Gladwin, a longtime sickle cell ...

What if hemoglobins clumped together? This is what happens in sickle cell disease. Sickle cell arises from a single point mutation in the human genome. That means that one DNA base pair in the HBB ...

An inherited blood disorder, sickle cell disease can be managed with several treatment options to reduce painful episodes and ...