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 ...

Around 2,500 people are living with sickle cell disease in the Bay State, and they are advocating for a bill that would improve quality of life for all those dealing with the disease.

Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disorder that impacts how red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body. In the United States, more than 90 percent of people who have it are Black or African ...

The hallmark symptom of sickle cell anemia is pain, particularly episodes of sudden pain, sometimes called sickle cell crises.

The first healthy volunteer has been dosed in a Phase 1 study of Cellarity's novel globin-switching therapy CLY-124 for ...

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

Exhibit at the California Museum celebrates the Black Panther Party's legacy and lasting impacts of their social activism.

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...

Objectives To provide lay information about genetics and sickle cell disease (SCD) and to identify and address ethical issues concerning the Sickle Cell Disease Genomics of Africa Network covering ...

Calvin "C.J." Dickey, Jr.'s, parents should be planning to take their son back to Bucknell University for his second year of ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...