People living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in Nigeria have lamented that the high cost of medication and poor access to comprehensive care are weighing heavily on them and their families.They also ...

Africa were born with sickle cell disease, a 27 per cent rise from 2000The World Health Organisation (WHO) says African countries must ramp up awareness and bolster prevention and care to curb the ...

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic ...

Fair! Already there are stem cell and gene manipulation methods to eliminate abnormal genes like sickle cell and other ‘bad’ genes from our babies, pre-birth or at birth or later. There are many ...

Identifying new drugs for patients with sickle cell disease is very important, said a senior scientist at the Indian Council ...

BEAM-101, a treatment for sickle cell disease, showed sustained efficacy and safety over one year in the BEACON Phase 1/2 ...

Isaralgagene civaparvovec is a “potential best-in-class gene therapy for Fabry disease,” according to analysts at H.C.

Michela Luciano is a Science Writer at BioNews. Originally from the picturesque mountain town of L’Aquila, Italy, Michela ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited, lifelong and painful blood disorder in which red blood cells are shaped like ...

Repositioning genes awakens fetal hemoglobin to treat disease. CRISPR editing may change future gene therapy. Researchers ...

Dr. Omar Llaguna, specialist in surgical oncology, programs a HistoSonics medical device for targeting a medium that mimics a liver tumor in a human body to demonstrate how a histotripsy procedure ...