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.

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An experimental gene editing cell therapy for sickle cell disease has shown encouraging early results in a phase ...

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 ...

A breakthrough treatment for sickle cell patients could soon become the first gene-editing treatment to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited ...

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 ...

Part of the job as a pediatric hematologist for Michael P. Triebwasser, MD, PhD, is to take care of patients during their bone marrow transplantation. Just last week, he took care of a patient with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...