A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing ...

A team of researchers from the Translational Oncology Research Centre (TORC) of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in ...

Cell therapies — particularly chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapies — have shown remarkable efficacy in treating ...

More Than 40 Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients Now Enrolled in BEACON Trial of BEAM-101; Beam Expects to Dose 30 Patients and Present Updated ...

Beam is pursuing a long-term, staged development strategy for sickle cell disease that includes three “waves” of ...

In The Pitt Season 1 Episode 2, sickle cell disease (SCD) is the main focus, as it brings to light the tough medical and racial challenges that people with this illness have to face every day.

Researchers from the UK and Israel have identified a new blood group system in humans, marking a major breakthrough in ...

When you donate blood, it’s subjected to rigorous testing for infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis B and C, and quickly ...

Patients undergoing a donor stem-cell transplant for leukemia or other blood-related cancer require months of specialized ...

For several years, investigators have been studying combinations that include ruxolitinib, sold as Jakafi, to treat ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that some CAR-T cells engineered to fight ...