Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle ...
Despite data gaps in many countries, the burden of sickle cell disease, especially in west and central Africa, underscores the urgent need to scale up newborn and early childhood screening, ...
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. Approximately 10 percent of ...