EditorialDr. Terry Jackson, whose experience with sickle cell disease motivated him to earn a Ph.D. in genetics, at his home in Petersburg, Va., Dec. 19, 2022. (Carlos Bernate/The New York Times)
EditorialTiffinee Scott of Maryland, who lost her daugher, Tiarra Renne Brown Lewis, to addiction after she was prescribed OxyContin for pain associated with her sickle cell disease. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialHelen Obando, the youngest person ever to receive a gene therapy for sickle cell anemia, awaits a surgery in Boston, Dec. 16, 2019. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)