Above The Crisis

06/19/2025

Celebrating Juneteenth and Sickcle Cell Awareness 🖤❤️💚🎈

01/04/2025

Rest in Peace Hoxi, you are loved and will be missed 👑

05/31/2023

12/08/2022

Happy Bornday👑

12/09/2020

Sending our love all the way to the heavens❤ you are truly Loved and missed dearly ❤ Happy Born day King👑

12/08/2019

Have your cake Young 👑We miss you dearly Happy Birthday Darrin ❤️

06/19/2019

As we celebrate one of our African American Independence Days let us also remember to support our warriors both living and passed by sharing Sickle Cell Awareness , it goes hand in hand!!!Spread the Love and the word❤

01/09/2019

Gene therapies could transform the treatment of sickle cell disease https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/gene-therapies-could-transform-sickle-cell-disease-into-a-curable-illness/2018/12/03/5635f70c-f3f6-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.16b7eeebbdbf

The potential therapies being developed and tested for sickle cell manipulate genes in a variety of ways, giving researchers a multitude of options and reason for hope.

Esrick and colleagues focused on trying to boost levels of a normally functioning fetal form of hemoglobin that is typically shut off after birth. They removed blood stem cells from Johnson and altered them in the laboratory, using a virus to insert a molecule that flips a genetic switch to turn fetal hemoglobin back on. They gave Johnson a form of chemotherapy and then reinfused him with the altered cells.

At six months out, they found no sickle cells in his blood, and he has not needed any more transfusions. They plan to give the therapy to the next patient in February, followed by another in March. If all goes well, they plan to seek ethical approval to try the therapy in younger patients.

One patient has been symptom-free for six months. Other therapies are in the pipeline.

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11/14/2018

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