Image Dr. Jackson was literally a poster child for the disease ... “an identity crisis,” when he had to make a life without sickle cell, he said. But now all of his suffering except, he ...

Plus, researchers including Orkin, Sankaran, and those at Vertex continue to conduct research to make sickle cell treatment more effective, more efficient, and appropriate for even more patients.

Improving her bloodwork might just make her more resilient. Sickle cell is a disease of hemoglobin, the molecule that shuttles oxygen throughout the body aboard red blood cells. A mutation she ...

Almost 12 months ago, the hopes of Stanford University physician-scientist Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, to implement a genome editing therapy for sickle ... poster noted that the group is focused on ...

But there were so many hospital days where I had to put on a brave face, be calm, and make these tough decisions within an emotionally charged atmosphere. How can we be more of sickle cell disease ...

You can reach Jason on Signal at JasonMast.05. Editas Medicine said Tuesday it will license out or partner its lead sickle cell treatment, the latest shift for a tarantella company that has ...

Sickle cell patient Dominique Goodson, 38 and pregnant with her first child, said she would like to get a gene therapy a year or so after she gives birth in December, but she needs to make sure ...