Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the ...

Life expectancy has soared and interest in the disease is growing, but breakthrough gene therapies are extraordinarily expensive.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital is one of only nine centers nationwide authorized to use the newly approved CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease in patients 12 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Regulators on Friday approved two gene ...