Sickle cell disease is a severe, inherited blood disorder that primarily affects people of African, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Indian descent.Despite its widespread impact, SCD research has ...

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study. The new approach, which ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Columnist Mary Shaniqua shares some practical examples of how to support, comfort, and encourage a loved one with sickle cell.

Explore the future of organ transplants and how biotech innovations like 3D bioprinting and stem cells can solve the organ ...

Stem cell therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for different conditions in endocrinology, including diabetes and ...

The Philadelphia Citizen is recognizing CHOP doctors Alexis Thompson and Dr. Stephan Grupp with the 'Disruptors of the Year' ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters ...

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