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Understanding Sickle Cell Disease: A Closer Look
ByCollette Onyejekwe September 23, 2024September 6, 2025

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Did you know that around 100,000 people in the United States are affected by this condition? Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited disorders that affect the red blood cells, the essential carriers of oxygen throughout our bodies. Normally, red blood cells, also known as erythrocytes,…

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The FDA Approved Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease
ByCollette Onyejekwe January 29, 2024September 6, 2025

Last month, the FDA approved the first cell-based therapies for the treatment of Sickle cell disease in patients 12 years of age and older: CASGEVY and LYFGENIA. Casgevy is the first FDA-approved treatment to utilize a novel type of genome editing technology that modifies the patients hematopoietic (blood) stem cells. The modified blood stem cells…

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