The delicate balance between cell death and regeneration is crucial for human health and longevity. Most mechanisms involved ...

They’ve discovered a previously unknown organelle – that is, a specialized structure that performs some specific function – inside human cells. The team named it the “hemifusome”, and in a paper ...

Gene therapy for sickle cell disease may help improve a major contributing factor to stroke risk in patients, reports a new ...

Immunotherapy. 2011;3(10):1167-1184. Specifically, iNKT cells appear to inhibit early disease progression with their loss facilitating disease progression, while at later inflammatory stages, NKT ...

Scientific organizations recently called for a 10-year ban on human germline editing. But will we ever be ready? And how ...

Jasper Hodgson-Smith, 7, diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, receives a life-saving stem cell transplant from his father, Matt, offering hope to others. SEVEN- year-old Jasper Hodgson-Smith from ...

Sickle cell is the UK’s most common genetic blood disorder, affecting around 17,500 people, with 300 babies born with it each year. It disproportionately affects people from African and ...

Keywords: neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, b cell depletion therapy, peripheral blood immune cells, multiple sclerosis, myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody disease Citation: Wang X, ...

With an estimated four million Nigerians affected by sickle cell disease, experts have called on the federal government to invest in the local production of gene therapy treatments. The appeal was ...

“We are going to continue to figure out new ways of accelerating approvals for rare disease drugs and treatments. We are going to make this country the hub of biotechnology innovation,” RFK Jr said ...

Akinsete stated this in Lagos at the foundation press conference to announce plans to mark World Sickle Cell Day. Over 150,000 Nigerian babies are born with sickle cell disorder out of which ...