UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful ...

Sickle cell disease occurs when a child inherits two sickle cell genes—one from each parent. Lillian knew she carried the ...

Next year is the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial. That case was the most famous challenge to the teaching of ...

Human evolution, traditionally driven by natural selection, may have reached a point where technological and medical ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false claims linking autism to childhood vaccinations are receiving new scrutiny now that ...

Columnist Oluwatosin Adesoye addresses some of the myths about blood transfusion and explains why it's important in managing ...

More than 4.75 crore people, including 1,98,62,568 tribal persons living in the tribal-dominated areas across 17 identified ...

Genes make up the blueprints and outline the process of building every living organism. To ensure that the right genes are ...

Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) — a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow ...