The decision by an advisory committee may lead to Food and Drug Administration approval of the first treatment for humans that uses the CRISPR gene-editing system.

In Between the Folds, origami artists are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science.

A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.

Trials of experimental gene therapy for sickle cell disease were halted when patients developed worrying illnesses.

What's sickle cell disease, and how did gene therapy cure it? Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder that impacts hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells.

FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell The landmark treatment turns on another blood protein that prevents sickling.

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The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was disbanded.

Medical breakthrough cures New Jersey boy of sickle cell anemia HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A New Jersey boy was cured of sickle cell anemia thanks to a medical breakthrough. Five-year-old Tobi Okunseinde ...

Sickle cell disease impacts more than 100,000 people in the United States. It’s estimated that more than two million Americans are carriers of the sickle cell disease trait.