Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WJW) – Breakthrough treatments for sickle cell disease have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On Dec.

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A team of scientists have developed a new method that enables them to make precise edits in multiple locations within a cell -- all at once. Using molecules called retrons, they created a tool that ...

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 ...

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

At age 45, Dr. Lakiea Bailey said, for the longest time, that she was the oldest person with sickle cell anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle ...

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 ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic condition that affects more than 8 million people worldwide by altering the shape of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Normally, red blood cells are shaped like ...

Having sickle cell disease used to mean Alyssa Weddle missed out on normal teenage things — going out with friends, school work, extracurricular activities. Now, after gene editing therapy, it’s been ...

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 ...