The exchange of cells between a mother and a fetus is a well-documented phenomenon that scientists have known about for more ...

The study, published in British scientific journal Nature, suggests that the disease may begin in basal stem cells — ...

A polygenic risk score (PRS) based on genes associated with endothelial cell function identifies patients at a higher risk of coronary artery disease, according to a new study. The risk score, which ...

For the first time, scientists say new therapies have the power to cure sickle cell disease. The disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people ...

Since 1975, the Suffolk Sickle Cell Foundation has supported people living with sickle cell disease-- a severe, chronic ...

A research group led by Professor Michael Glickman, dean of Technion's Faculty of Biology, has uncovered a key mechanism in ...

For starters, she pointed out that standard CAR-T therapy involves a lymphodepletion regimen with cyclophosphamide and ...

Long before a liver tumor appears, a high-fat diet can push liver cells into a risky survival mode. That is the central ...

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary condition, which means a person inherits it from their biological parents. The condition occurs when a person inherits two copies of the hemoglobin beta (HBB) gene ...

Dry eye disease happens when the lacrimal glands do not make enough tears, or the tears do not have the right balance of ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) can affect people of any ethnicity but is much more common among Africans and African Americans. Other ethnic groups with higher rates of SCD include Hispanic Americans from ...

Developing slowly over months to years, feline small cell gastrointestinal (GI) lymphoma can be difficult to detect. 1 With this type of cancer resembling many of the common digestive issues cats ...