Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Kelsi Victorian, 30, has been in and out of the hospital her whole life dealing with a disease that affects millions in the ...

Vertex Pharma's £1.65 million ($2.05 million) gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD), Casgevy, has been given the green light for use by the NHS in England under a managed access ...

A 21-year-old Long Island patient has been cured of sickle cell anemia thanks to a gene therapy treatment. Medical history […] ...

Pfizer is voluntarily withdrawing its sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Oxbryta from all world markets after finding an "imbalance" in deaths in its clinical trials programme. It's a blow to the ...

In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific ...

Understanding the differences in the mutations that ... FLIpping the Switch: Boosting Stem Cell Numbers for Therapies Mar. 10, 2025 — A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells ...

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Scientists have found a potential new gene variant target to treat sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that affects about 300,000 people globally each year, with limited treatment options ...

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Mar. 26, 2025 — Researchers have developed 'tomoseqr' -- a new software tool that enables easy estimation of the three-dimensional (3D) spatial distribution of gene expression. Tomoseqr is free ...

Polymer Science & Technology is a highly selective, open-access journal dedicated to the publication of cutting-edge research in the field of polymer science and its interdisciplinary areas. The ...