Precision DNA editing gene therapy achieves deep remissions in aggressive leukemia previously considered incurable.

Chronic illnesses such as cancer and autoimmune disorders significantly strain both patients and healthcare systems. Traditional long-term drug therapies, which often have non-specific effects, can ...

As people grow older, their immune systems do not simply slow down, they often become locked into a simmering, self-perpetuating state of inflammation. Emerging work now suggests that aging immune ...

Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients during their bone marrow transplantation. Just last week, he took care of a patient with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An experimental gene editing cell therapy for sickle cell disease has shown encouraging early results in a phase ...

Editas Medicine reports successful gene editing levels in stem cells, supporting potential treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. Editas Medicine announced promising new data on May ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), used CRISPR to engineer cellular models of embryos that mimic what happens in the first few days after reproductive cells meet. These ...

Scientists showed how prime editing can correct mutations that cause sickle cell disease in a potentially curative approach. Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a serious blood disorder affecting millions of ...

Beam Therapeutics’ experimental gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease now has its first cut of patient data showing signs of treating the rare blood disorder in a way that could differentiate ...

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune ...