BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early ...

Thousands of diseases — such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia and cancer — are ... There are more than 6,000 single cell disorders that are caused by mutations in single genes. These kinds of ...

Blood stem cells develop through different stages to become fully mature red blood cells. This fundamental biologic process ...

It may be possible to collect nearly three times as many stem cells for sickle cell gene therapy with motixafortide than standard plerixafor.

Are you planning to get a baby? Protect your child by screening for hereditary disorders that you may pass to them ...

people with sickle cell anemia (SCA), the most severe form of SCD, can often have a greater risk of death from malaria, compared with people who have SCT or no hemoglobin gene mutation.

If the findings translate to humans, it opens the door to improved brain function and healthier aging A closer examination revealed that the F-actin had messed up the cell’s recycling system.

Excitement around the sickle cell treatment market has been palpable. Around the beginning of the year, two new breakthrough gene editing medications — including the first FDA-approved CRISPR ...

After 44 days at the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., Kendric Cromer has left the hospital free of sickle cell disease. Cromer is the first patient to undergo a recently approved gene ...