This electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health in 2016 shows a blood cell altered by sickle cell disease, top. About two weeks ago, Ediomi Utuk-Lowery got an unexpected ...

Red blood cells viewed through a microscope. The arrow points to a cell with the sickle-shaped malformation indicative of sickle cell disease, which is caused by a genetic abnormality. Credit: CDC/Dr.

This microscope photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows crescent- shaped red blood cells from a sickle cell disease patient in1972. The disorder affects hemoglobin, the ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of genetic blood disorders. A person inherits SCD from their parents when they inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, one from each parent. This hereditary ...

It would seem an unlikely pairing. One, pediatric hematologist Lydia Pecker, raised in Brooklyn and trained in the Bronx and Washington, D.C. The other, Lauren Anthony, recruited from Edmond, Oklahoma ...

Sickle cell thalassemia occurs when you inherit both a sickle cell gene mutation and a thalassemia gene mutation. Symptoms are similar to other types of sickle cell disease but can vary depending on ...

It was only 11 years ago that scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first described a new way to edit genes, called CRISPR, in a scientific paper. The discovery is so game-changing ...