Until recently, the only cure for sickle cell disease was stem cell transplantation - also known as bone marrow transplantation - from a healthy donor with a compatible immune system which will not be ...

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

The disease reduces the quality and duration of life of patients—in the UK, those with sickle cell disease have a life expectancy of 67. Stem cell transplantation replaces the cells in the blood ...

Roberts needed a lifesaving transplant to help treat ... said she was motivated to become a stem cell donor because of a childhood friend whose sister had sickle cell disease, a type of red ...

Cristina Pina receives funding from Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group via the Little Princess Trust and the National Centre for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animals in Research.

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 ...

Until recently, the only cure for sickle cell disease was stem cell transplantation – also known as bone marrow transplantation – from a healthy donor with a compatible immune system which ...

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

Until recently, the only cure for sickle cell disease was stem cell transplantation – also known as bone marrow transplantation – from a healthy donor with a compatible immune system which will not be ...

Manchester and Birmingham to people aged 12 and over who get recurrent sickle cell crises and who cannot find a donor for a stem cell transplant. John James, chief executive of the Sickle Cell ...

A sickle cell disease “cure” is to be ... available for people with the disease in the UK is a donor stem cell transplant, but it is not given to many patients because of the risks involved.