Genome India project was launched in 2020, completed in February last year. A total of 10,000 genome samples across diverse ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the GenomeIndia Project, a scientific program to study Indian-specific genetic diversity ...

Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of ...

But another strategy aims to merely swap out one base letter of DNA for another, in a technique known as base editing. Branden was the world's first person to receive base editing for sickle cell ...

Living with Sickle Cell Disease means that every treatment comes ... damaging cellular components such as lipids, proteins, and DNA. Over time, this can result in permanent organ damage and ...

Many individuals with sickle cell anemia undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) with oocyte cryopreservation (OC) have complications, according to a study scheduled for presentation ...

As science continues its evolution, discoveries and technologies can act like a master key that opens doors that lead to ...

A change in a single DNA base (A, C, T, or G) could be enough to cure Branden’s sickle cell disease ... and improved anemia. Heeney presented these results at the American Society of Hematology ...

It is now 12 months since the Food and Drug Administration rolled out the historic approval of a CRISPR therapy designed for patients suffering from sickle cell anemia ... of DNA to jump from ...

Time for some extremely good news: the cures for catastrophic diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s, heart disease and HIV are ...

The cost of managing sickle cell anemia has been a significant burden. “Hydroxyurea costs Sh50 per tablet,” Faith explains. “With two tablets a day, it quickly adds up. And that’s just one ...