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 recent investigation published by the British Medical Journal revealed that long COVID patients are traveling abroad to seek expensive "blood washing" treatment.
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An established drug for recurrent multiple myeloma might effectively be repurposed to improve the survival and day-to-day lives of patients with devastating sickle cell disease, according to revealing new research by a Feinstein ...
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Are non-contact thermometers unsafe to use on children?
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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.
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Teonna Woolford has always wanted six kids. Why six?
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The blood supply in the U.S. is now at its lowest level in over a decade.
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A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the disorder, researchers report.
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Therapeutic use of gene editing with the CRISPR-Cas9 technique may inadvertently increase the risk of cancer, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the University of Helsinki, Finland, published ...
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Researchers at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh found that infusing umbilical cord blood—a readily available source of stem cells—safely and effectively treated 44 children born with various non-cancerous genetic ...
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