The Story: Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from Washington, D.C., became the first person outside of clinical trials to receive Lyfgenia, a one-time gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease.

Sickle cell disease is a condition little understood by most people around the world, despite it being the number one most ...

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 ...

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary condition, which means a person inherits it from their biological parents. The condition occurs when a person inherits two copies of the hemoglobin beta (HBB ...

Figure 1 shows the scan of Case 1, an eight-month-old girl ... This may also be true in the young patient with sickle-cell anemia. Such handicaps could result in progression of a simple bacteremia ...

“The sickle was not laid flat, but placed on the neck in such a way that if the deceased had tried to get up most likely the ...

Zosia was the only skeleton found with a sickle around her neck. Miroslaw Blicharski Polinski and Zagrodzka worked with Oscar Nilsson, a facial recognition expert who took a digital scan of Zosia ...

He notes they have been doing sensitization within community units, spreading the word about the screening, which is done through the sickle scan. Olik asserts that prevention involves people know ...

People with sickle cell disease are immunocompromised, which means they have an increased risk of infection. For this reason, immunizations are an important part of complete sickle cell care. This ...