A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and roughly 100,000 here in the United States, most of them African American. It ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Sickle cell disease refers to a group of genetic diseases that impact a protein that ferries oxygen through the blood. That protein is called hemoglobin, and in sickle cell disease, aberrant ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen to all the different tissues in your body and removing carbon dioxide to ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

People are often encouraged to “know their status,” however this healthy habit can be applied to more than just safe-sex practices. Although they are not the only community who suffers with sickle ...

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Ryan Dodson, 18, was diagnosed with sickle cell disease ...

The Rotary Club of Accra–Airport has inaugurated a newly furnished five-consulting-room facility for the Ghana Institute of ...

Expected rapid advances in CAR T and other cellular therapies may expand treatment options not only in cancer but also in ...