A Sickle Cell Carrier Status Awareness program has been launched to help identify people who carry genetic variants associated with…
Articles by Steve Bryson, PhD
Bluebird Bio has provided the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with information regarding the commercial manufacturing of…
Jasper Therapeutics’ investigational conditioning therapy briquilimab safely improved the success of stem cell transplants for three people with…
Treatment with Adakveo (crizanlizumab) did not reduce the yearly occurrence of painful vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) leading to a medical…
An imbalance of microbes in the digestive tract was found to contribute to bone disease in a mouse model study…
A lung ultrasound may help in diagnosing acute chest syndrome (ACS), a serious lung complication in sickle cell disease…
Reduced dietary iron eased blood vessel blockages and lessened organ damage in a mouse model of sickle cell disease…
Recruitment is now underway in BEACON, a Phase 1/2 U.S. trial testing BEAM-101, a transplant-based gene-editing cell therapy for…
Researchers have developed a method to detect and measure large unintended DNA modifications created by CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing methods currently being…
Contraception practices and counseling for adolescent and young adult women with sickle cell disease (SCD) vary by the healthcare…