Setting a new milestone in Atmanirbhar Bharat, the government on Wednesday launched an indigenous CRISPR-based gene therapy for Sickle Cell Disease, which particularly affects India's tribal ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Northwestern University identified a previously unknown treatment opportunity for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. The discovery, ...

When Amy Cohen, 29, finished the New York City Marathon, she broke ground as the first person with the illness to run the 26.2 mile race Mass General Brigham Amy Cohen became the first-ever person ...

Sisters inspired by battle with sickle cell disease become sisters RFK Jr. wants an answer to rising autism rates. Scientists say he's ignoring some obvious ones Watch: Jimmy Kimmel Returns to ...

Aug 15 (Reuters) - In the latest setback for Pfizer's (PFE.N), opens new tab sickle cell anemia treatments, experimental drug inclacumab failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage trial for patients ...

Scientists at the Center for Cell Dynamics, School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with Carl Zeiss, have developed an innovative live-cell ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. ® (Fulcrum) (Nasdaq: FULC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing small molecules to improve ...

So far in 2025, the Trump administration has cut more than $1 billion in NIH grants. That includes a study on sickle cell disease, a blood disorder that affects roughly 100,000 people in the U.S.

What was supposed to be a five-year, $750,000 NIH grant to fund Dr. Charity Oyedeji's sickle cell research at Duke University – was terminated. “I thought it was possible,” Oyedeji said when asked if ...

Sickle Cell advocacy groups in Lagos have called on both federal and state governments to enact legislation mandating genotype screening for all newborns and citizens, as part of efforts to curb the ...