Historically, sickle cell anaemia has been widely neglected within its global epicentre of sub-Saharan Africa. More than ...

Though he doesn't remember it, Branden Baptiste had his first sickle cell crisis at age 2. Through elementary school, he was in and out of the hospital with pain episodes, not knowing why. As he got ...

Sickle cell anemia refers to a group of genetic blood ... children may experience a potentially life-threatening splenic sequestration crisis in which sickle cells block the narrow blood vessels ...

Africa's top gold producer to hold general elections Economy, jobs, and infrastructure are top concerns Debt crisis and cost-of-living weigh on voters' minds DABALA, Ghana, Dec 2 (Reuters ...

It is a bin-fire of an Instagram post. Enough to leave those with only the loosest of grasps of crisis management open-mouthed. Rather than a weekend of self-reflection, after a bruising week ...

He begins by examining the water under a microscope but finds no visible impurities or microorganisms. To delve deeper, he takes the sample to a laboratory for professional testing. Image Credit ...

Caregiving is a journey I hold close to my heart, especially as it involves my dear cousin Ada, a vibrant adolescent and a true warrior living with sickle cell disease ... late-night worries about Ada ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR ...

With all eyes on a possible ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, UN humanitarians have condemned the ongoing violence in Lebanon, Gaza, and Israel. Meanwhile, at UN ...

As a graduate student in 2000, he spent six months trying to build a cell that could periodically alter a tiny bit of its own DNA. After six months of failure, he abandoned the project.