The disease gets its name because when you have SCD, your red blood cells look like a sickle, which is a C-shaped ... an immune feature used by microbes to help ward off viruses or other invaders.

If you have sickle cell disease (SCD), your red blood cells aren’t round and bendable or pliable like they should be. Instead, they’re stiff and sticky. They’re also shaped like a crescent ...

There are more types of sickle cell crisis than a vaso-occlusive crisis, writes columnist Mary Shaniqua, who summarizes several of them.

The announcement is a landmark in the treatment of sickle ... deform red blood cells. Casgevy turns on HbF with the CRISPR/Cas9 system, a gene-editing system initially swiped from bacteria that ...

You’re adjusting to life with your sweet newborn, and you receive scary news: Your baby has sickle cell disease, a group of inherited red ... bacteria that cause infections in the blood.” ...

Sickle cell disease is an inherited disease where the red blood cells can become sickled or crescent shaped and can have difficulty passing through smaller blood vessels. HEALTH CHECK: Raising ...