Two Pee Dee siblings are officially cured of sickle cell disease after more than a decade of living with the genetic blood ...

Vertex executives warned that Casgevy, its curative treatment for sickle cell disease, would be slow to reach patients. But ...

This story is the first in an occasional series following Louisiana’s first patients to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease. On the third floor of Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New ...

Doctors say new gene-based treatments could offer long-term relief — and possible cures — for people living with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease has long shortened lives in the United States, ...

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, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Groundbreaking advancements in Sickle Cell treatment are changing and saving lives nationwide. For decades, patients with Sickle Cell Disease have lived with pain, complications ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month, and millions of people worldwide are living with the disease. But advances in treatment are being made. WRBL News 3 anchor Cameron ...

But new gene therapies — two of which will submit for FDA approval by the end of March — offer what could be a life-changing alternative for sickle cell patients in Louisiana, which has the ...

Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of CRISPR advances is not only correcting single mutations in the lab but ...

Lauren Pastrana is the co-anchor of CBS4 News weeknights at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m. She joined CBS Miami in April 2012 as a reporter. She is an Emmy-nominated, multimedia journalist with experience in ...