A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye explains why preventing malaria infections is particularly important for those with sickle cell ...

Race has no biological basis and no effect on the onset or progression of disease.

As World Sickle Cell Awareness Day on June 19 draws near, a collaborative of 47 community organizations and medical providers ...

Humans are not yet done cooking. We're continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations written in our bodies. We know that there are some environments that can ...

A renowned Harvard hematologist, Maureen Okam Achebe, has called for the institutionalisation of continuous newborn screening ...

Without the Sickle Cell Data Collection program, we will see greater burdens and higher costs for both families and health ...

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...

You might have wondered why some people with sickle cell disease seem to live relatively normal lives while others spend half ...

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR,  a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by ...

The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance showed that humans can and do adapt. But are the “bugs” that make us sick evolving as well? While malaria is the best ...