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Roxanne Scott is a reporter in Queens, N.Y., covering health, science and the environment. Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with ...

Ambroise Wonkam is a medical geneticist. He is director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s department of genetic medicine and McKusick-Nathans Institute.

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Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine ...

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These sickle cell researchers and advocates are driving change from labs to global stages, transforming lives in the process.

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Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine ...