Scientists have discovered more than a dozen genes that regulate the production of fetal hemoglobin in people of African ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, became the first person in New York state to be made symptom-free of sickle cell disease after undergoing Lyfgenia, a new type of gene therapy.

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

Scientists say they have identified a potential new gene target that could be edited to treat sickle cell disease, an ...

A 21-year-old man has become the first person in New York—and one of the first in the world—to be cured of sickle cell anemia ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the middle 1940s in Africa. Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious ...

Each gene within that cell has a coding region. This region encodes the information used to make a particular protein, such as the hemoglobin in the red blood cells seen here. (Hemoglobin shuttles ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Today, the cause of sickle cell disease is well understood to be a point mutation in a hemoglobin gene called HBB that makes red blood cells grow ...

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... when they look at populations of organisms in an attempt to find genetic changes that predispose individuals to certain traits ...