Researchers use CRISPR to create cellular and animal models of blood diseases, allowing them to study the genetic factors contributing to these disorders. One must get certain tests done annually ...

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely ... of the hemoglobin protein causes the red blood cells to lose oxygen and warp ...

Reverting to HbF in thalassaemia and SCD patients produces normal, healthy red blood cells, rather than the misshapen cells produced by faulty haemoglobin in the two disorders. Patients remain in ...