New gene therapy improves the life of 18-year-old with Sickle Cell Disease which affects 5,000 New Jersey residents living ...

NTPC supports AIIMS Nagpur's BMT unit to treat sickle cell and thalassemia patients in Vidarbha, reducing reliance on Mumbai ...

Despite the safety and simplicity, myths prevail in India—fuelled mostly by a lack of awareness and cultural resistance to ...

A team of scientists from the San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) in Milan, Italy, has identified a ...

Bone marrow transplants, while commonly known for treating cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, are also surprisingly used to ...

In the United States, sickle cell disease is most prevalent among African Americans. About one in 12 African Americans and about one in 100 Hispanic Americans carry the sickle cell trait, which means ...

It is one hour at a time for Gladicy Mbeyu, a sickle cell warrior who was last year awarded a state commendation for helping ...

In this report, VINCENT KURAUN explores the groundbreaking strategies for managing sickle cell disease, with a particular ... such as allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, are becoming more ...

It was just a couple of days later that she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, and she was going to need an urgent bone marrow transplant,” Leslie said. The disease attacks your bone marrow, so that ...

While some people with sickle cell anemia can have a high-quality life with the use of medication and medical procedures, others need a cure. Thus far, the only cure for the illness is a bone marrow ...

This is ensured by hematopoietic stem cells, which are found in the bone marrow. The process of blood cell formation is very important for the maintenance of a functional immune system and therefore ...