This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...

Sickle cell disease is a chronic genetic disorder that affects the shape and behavior of red blood cells. These cells become sickle-shaped, stiff, and sticky, causing them to block blood flow and ...

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease may help improve a major contributing factor to stroke risk in patients, reports a new ...

For millions of individuals, life with sickle cell disease (SCD) doesn’t unfold in dramatic episodes—it wears on quietly, ...

Corresponding author Akshay Sharma, MBBS, MSc, St. Jude Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy talks ...

Scientists say they captured 3D images of a new organelle they're calling a "hemifusome," which may be a recycling center in ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Novartis has said it is “disappointed” that the EMA’s Human Medicines Committee has recommended revoking the conditional EU approval for sickle cell disease (SCD) therapy Adakveo, and that ...

The field of cellular immunotherapy has undergone a profound transformation in recent years, with autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies emerging as the standard-of-care option ...

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