The misshapen cells tend to block blood flow in the vessels, leading to frequent pain episodes, infections, and damage to organs.

When we speak, Iwobi is in the middle of his time off, which has involved plenty of travelling including walking with lions ...

Shreveport native, Stromile Swift, and Lamar Odom visited Galilee Baptist Church Monday afternoon (July 7) to help some kids hone their basketball skills. Saturday night (July 5) at Sam’s Town, a ...

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - An estimated 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, according to the Sickle Cell ...

I was flooded with tenderness for my unborn child, along with a feeling of protectiveness for my sister and people like her who had been born with a disease but whose existences weren’t defined by it.

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

The gene-editing therapy OTQ923 normalized brain blood flow in 3 sickle cell disease patients, suggesting it may lower stroke ...

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