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Could a pill treat sickle cell disease?

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

As we age, many of us acquire mutations that cause some of our blood stem cells to multiply faster than …Read More

As COVID-19 evolved into a serious threat in March 2020, protecting the health of patients, families, and employees at Boston …Read More