Stem cells can fight disease from the inside out. But not all treatments are created equal. The promise of stem cell therapy ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

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 ...

Department of Neurology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan, China ...

Bone marrow transplants, while commonly known for treating cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, are also surprisingly used to treat various other conditions, including some genetic and autoimmune ...

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 ...

The resulting traffic jam prevents the normal delivery of oxygen throughout the body, leading to problems that include bone deterioration, strokes and organ failure. The gene that causes sickle cell ...

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 ...