The reconstitution of the blood system in humans holds great therapeutic potential to treat many disorders, like blood cancers, sickle-cell anemia and others. Successful reconstitution requires the transplantation and engraftment ...
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Doctors didn't expect Marqus Valentine to live past age 5. The prognosis was so certain that the Valentine family was granted a free trip to Universal Studios to the set of "The Ghostbusters" from a foundation as a dying ...
Dec 31, 2019
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Zebrafish, besides being popular in aquariums, make good stand-ins for studying human diseases. They share about 70 percent of their genes with humans, and can be studied at a mass scale, enabling scientists to test hundreds, ...
Dec 6, 2019
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In the summer, a mother in Nashville with a seemingly incurable genetic disorder finally found an end to her suffering—by editing her genome.
Dec 5, 2019
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Terri Booker's worst sickle cell crisis almost killed her.
Nov 27, 2019
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Officials from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics have announced that preliminary results from testing CRISPR gene-editing treatment in human patients with blood disorders show promise thus far. The joint project ...
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species.
Nov 18, 2019
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U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new medicine that can help reduce extremely painful sickle cell disease flare-ups.
Nov 15, 2019
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Researchers have narrowed down the malaria proteins and disease-fighting antibodies that could be used to develop a vaccine against the most severe forms of malaria.
Nov 13, 2019
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An autoimmune attack on uninfected red blood cells likely contributes to anaemia—a shortage of red blood cells—in people with malaria, according to a new study published in eLife.
Nov 12, 2019
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