In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...

Sickle cell disease changes adult beta-globin ... Read more: Nobel Prize for chemistry honors exquisitely precise gene-editing technique, CRISPR – a gene engineer explains how it works The ...

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited blood disorders that ... Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. Exa-cel, also called Casgevy, involves taking ...

This achievement follows Bahrain’s landmark decision on 2 December 2023 to become the second country globally and the first ...

It is believed around 1,700 people could be eligible for the treatment, while the NHS estimates around 50 people a year will ...

News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing.

A cutting-edge gene therapy has been approved for NHS use for some patients with severe sickle ... for chemistry in 2020. It works by editing the faulty gene in a patient’s own stem cells.

describes studies in which humanized sickle cell mice topically treated with Vascarta's transdermal curcumin gel formulation ("VAS-101") experienced reduced pain and inflammation along with ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy travelling through your blood vessels. They are delivering ...

But not if you suffer from sickle cell disease, which affects nearly 8 million people worldwide, most in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 ...

But not if you suffer from sickle cell disease, which affects nearly eight million people worldwide, most in sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK, approximately 17,500 people have sickle cell disease and 300 ...