Farrell High School students are raising awareness for an important cause--donating blood for sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition causes severe pain and health complications, carriers gain resistance to ...

In November 2023, the UK became the first country in the world to authorise a Crispr gene-editing therapy.

Most days, our bodies are just there—mundane vessels we inhabit on autopilot. We wake up, get on with our routines, eat, sleep, repeat. But the moment you actually stop and think about what’s ...

A developmental screening tool may identify young children with SCD who are at risk for academic difficulties, a study found.

Day to day, we exist in our bodies without thinking much about them. We wake up, eat, move around, and fall asleep again, all ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...

Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting ...

Patients with CaV2.1 channelopathies face severe and often debilitating symptoms, such as seizures, migraines, tremors, and ...

Gene-editing tools like CRISPR have unlocked new treatments for previously uncurable diseases. Now, researchers at the ...

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has granted multiple CT-18 approvals between January 2020 and ...

Federal officials in May 2023 declared an end to the national covid pandemic. But more than two years later, a growing body ...