“Not all patients with sickle cell are good candidates for a bone marrow transplant. If you can manage the condition well without frequent crises, you likely won’t need one. “The transplant is best ...

"Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts is marking 12 years since she returned to the anchor desk after receiving a ...

CUTTACK: Doctors at the clinical hematology department of SCB medical college and hospital here have successfully conducted ...

Bahrain Makes History with First Successful CRISPR-Based Sickle Cell Treatment Outside the US MANAMA, Kingdom of Bahrain, Feb ...

Sickle cell disease is a severe, inherited blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean, Middle ...

and sickle cell anemia, where conventional treatments fail to provide favorable outcomes. In this Innovation Spotlight, Kevin Caldwell, chief executive officer, co-founder, and president of Ossium ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

The patient had 100 per cent compatibility with her four-year-old elder sister, who then donated her stem cells for the ... conducted allogenic bone marrow transplant (BMT) on a two-year-old ...

who also has sickle cell disease. "I'm praying and hoping that Joshua will find his match. And I just want people to go out and get their cheeks swabbed," Joshua's mother Vera Johnson said. "Just do ...

Plus, researchers including Orkin, Sankaran, and those at Vertex continue to conduct research to make sickle cell treatment more effective, more efficient, and appropriate for even more patients.