The first medicine based on gene editing, a one-time therapy for sickle cell disease, was just approved in the United States. It’s a big moment for patients with sickle cell disease and for the ...

One report examined what private insurance companies paid and found that the lifetime costs of sickle cell were $1.7 million, including $44,000 that patients paid out of pocket. That, patients and ...

Sickle cell is most common among Black people and 1 in 365 Black babies are born with the disease nationally. Scientists believe being a carrier of the sickle cell trait helps protect against ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... or stroke—all because of a single nucleotide mutation (Figure 1). SNPs are important as markers, or signposts, for scientists ...

The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company said people with sickle cell disease face lifetime medical costs that can amount to $4 million-$6 million. In addition, 1 in 4 will have a ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe sickle cell ... sales of over $1 billion a year ...