I was flooded with tenderness for my unborn child, along with a feeling of protectiveness for my sister and people like her who had been born with a disease but whose existences weren’t defined by it.

The most severe form of sickle cell disease, sickle cell anemia causes red blood cells to be sickle- or crescent-shaped, rather than a disc. That distortion causes the cells to get stuck in the ...

Bayer’s BAYRY wholly owned subsidiary, BlueRock Therapeutics, announced that the first patient in the phase I/IIa CLARICO study has received OpCT-001, an investigational iPSC-derived cell therapy, ...

The gene-editing platform known as Crispr is widely used by researchers in scientific laboratories in their search for new ...

Gabriella Ngang, of Farmington Hills, is one of three in Michigan to take part in a clinical trial of a new sickle cell ...