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Gene therapy: Two years and holding

For the Cáceres family of Argentina, it’s a joyous holiday homecoming. Agustín, who received gene therapy at 5½ months of age, journeyed …Read More

In 2021, research led by Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD, and his mentor, Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, opened a new …Read More

The new gene therapies for sickle cell disease — including the gene-editing treatment Casgevy, based on research at Boston Children’s …Read More

Heather Cookson believes that if she hadn’t insisted her son Ricky get a brain MRI to investigate his frequent headaches, …Read More

Gene therapy was made possible by decades of technological advances. But to execute gene therapy at scale? That would not …Read More

Even when a bone marrow transplant cures leukemia or lymphoma, patients can still pass away from graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in …Read More

Each time our cells divide, the protective caps that keep our chromosomes from fraying, called telomeres, lose a bit of …Read More

The origins of our blood may not be quite what we thought. In groundbreaking research, scientists in the Stem Cell …Read More

Survival has improved greatly in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). But a certain form of ALL that occurs mostly …Read More

To see Tara Daniels today, with a corporate job in marketing and about to close on a house, you’d never …Read More