Austin Louis, 20, says the CRISPR treatment he received at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for sickle cell disease changed everything, allowing him to live without pain for the first time.

Black History Month is poignant for one family after a man got a historic, innovative treatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System have identified a ...

Are autoimmune diseases fatal? Normally, your immune system fights off disease and protects your body from infection. However, when you have an autoimmune disease, your immune system ...

James Griffin, diagnosed with sickle cell at age two, shares how blood donations enabled his transformation from frequent hospital patient to medical professional and advocate.

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza A novel CAR-T cell approach targets amyloid plaques in preclinical Alzheimer models, raising the ...

Scientists have found that the anti-seizure medication levetiracetam prevents the buildup of faulty amyloid-beta proteins in ...

While physicians and scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease involves the buildup of toxic protein fragments in ...

Circulating tumor DNA may be an effective biomarker for stratifying patients with small cell lung cancer who would benefit from more stringent follow-ups and clinical trial participation.Patients who ...

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

A research team has discovered a crucial mechanism that underlies chemotherapy resistance and metastasis in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Their study shows that the silencing of the RASA4 gene ...