A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

Scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, have found that gene editing using ...

Circulating cells, such as red blood cells (RBC), platelets, and leukocytes, frequently collide with the vessel wall. This occurs (1) when the conventional parallel vessel-wall architecture of the ...

Normal human red blood cells have an average life span of about 120 days in the circulation after which they are engulfed by macrophages. This is an extremely efficient process as macrophages ...