New results from a clinical trial show promising outcomes for a gene-edited treatment for severe sickle cell disease, a ...

While treatment options for the inherited blood disease have long been available, scientists now believe that a cure for ...

Treatment with the investigational base-editing gene therapy ristoglogene autogetemcel (risto-cel) showed promise in patients with sickle cell disease, according to an interim ana ...

High school teacher Marcus Mitchell, 35, is the first adult at Duke University Hospital to undergo this gene therapy aimed at curing sickle cell disease.

Chantez Sanford Jr., 24, of Southfield, says his life has been transformed after undergoing Lyfgenia gene therapy at Children ...

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease shows strong clinician support but faces barriers in referral practices, knowledge, and ...

Tatyana Thompson found a successful experimental treatment for the genetic condition at 30 years old ...

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 ...

The federal approval of two new gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has created a groundbreaking option for patients. Across the nation, it is unknown how many suffer from the disease, but ...

SAN DIEGO — A newly approved gene therapy product for sickle cell disease, lovotibeglogene autotemcel (lovo-cel, marketed as Lyfgenia), led to durable disease remissions for up to 5 years and almost ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

For most of her life, Annyanna Cash of Oakwood Village knew hospitals better than her own home.