Sickle cell disease commonly affects people of African and Caribbean backgrounds and can be life-threatening but campaigners ...

Gene therapy, with its offer of a possible cure for rare diseases like sickle cell, is losing early investors to ...

Rutgers faculty elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are ...

Boston Children's Hospital is the fourth largest recipient of NIH grants in the country. Last year, it received $218 million ...

With over 60,000 transplants performed globally using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, the demand for life-saving ...

IF PAULA MENDES achieves her goals, her nanotechnology innovations will soon allow doctors to diagnose cancer with greater ...

Avianah Drakeford was born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that negatively affects how blood moves around the ...

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

A sickle cell gene therapy treatment has allowed a Long Island man to turn a chapter in his life, with doctors declaring him ...

The launching of the Sentara-Eastern Virginia Medical School Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program in October gave adults ...