Sickle cell disease (SCD), the most common ... Two newly approved gene therapies and a refined bone marrow transplantation technique present potential cures. Yet, the debate over accessibility ...

Sebastien Beauzile, 21, is the first New Yorker to have received the breakthrough Lyfgenia treatment, according to the New ...

A recent Vanderbilt study has found a cure for sickle cell disease, a blood disorder where the body creates mutated red blood ...

A new bone marrow transplant method can help cure sickle cell disease and is more accessible than highly expensive gene therapies for the disease, researchers say. Sickle cell disease is a genetic ...

Anemia remains a major public health concern in India, affecting women, children and pregnant mothers, leading to severe ...

The Rutgers Cancer Institute recently became a designated gene therapy treatment center for sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia, joining a small group of medical centers that currently provide ...

Sebastien Beauzile became the first person in NY to be made symptom-free after undergoing a new type of gene therapy.

More information: Liana Hatoum et al, Bone marrow transplant protects mice from sickle cell–mediated large artery remodeling, Science Translational Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp7690 ...

“With time, pediatric sickle cell disease really evolves into something that’s much more severe and debilitating for many adults so, some parents opt to do bone marrow transplant when their ...

Villanova football will host its 17th annual Get in the Game Bone Marrow Drive on April 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the ...

He said the teen was a good candidate for the new therapy because he didn’t have a match for a bone marrow transplant. Sickle cell occurs when a child inherits the genetic marker from both.