Por: ABC7 Health November 01, 2023
anemia that she knew. The executive director of the nonprofit patient advocacy group the Sickle Cell Consortium was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at age three. Because of it, she's had heart problems, had her hips replaced, and experienced serious pain all her life.Bailey told the US Food and Drug Administration's independent advisory committee Tuesday that she believes a cutting-edge therapy that is currently under review offers... + full article
10 WBNS USA Health November 01, 2023
WASHINGTON — The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source. On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration reviewed a gene therapy for the inherited... + más
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ABC News USA Health October 28, 2023
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source. On Tuesday, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will review a gene therapy for the inherited blood... + más
The Boston Globe USA Business June 11, 2023
It’s one of the great paradoxes of medicine.Sickle cell disease was the first human disorder understood on a molecular level, its underpinnings explained in a landmark 1949 paper by a future two-time Nobel laureate.Yet the inherited blood disease ― which causes unpredictable... + más
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The New York Times USA Opinion December 09, 2022
The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation is causing her heart to fail.“Time is quickly running out for me,” writes a man in his mid-30s whose DNA harbors a genetic mistake certain to destroy... + más
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The Boston Globe USA Business December 07, 2022
A Cambridge biotech company using to develop therapies for blood cancers said that its experimental treatment for acute myeloid leukemia proved safe in the first recipient, who is currently in remission.The preliminary results, announced Wednesday morning, were a long time... + más
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The Atlantic USA Science September 24, 2022
CRISPR is changing the world—but it can do more.Erik Carter / The AtlanticSeptember 12, 2022Two years ago, I was working on my laptop in an airport lounge in Newark, New Jersey, when I glanced up and saw a couple walking with their two boys. The younger boy slowly made his way... + más
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Associated Press USA Science September 21, 2022
FILE - This 2009 colorized microscope image made available by the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a sickle cell, left, and normal red blood cells of a patient with sickle cell anemia. A study of U.S. children with sickle... + más
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