OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nobel Prize-winning technology offers a potential cure for sickle cell disease. Simply put, doctors can edit a patient’s genes to alter blood cells. But this gene editing ...

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then reprogram them into a kind of youthful immune cell. They then inject these into an ...

For the first time ever, a patient has received an allogeneic stem cell transplant using a deceased donor graft as part of a blood cancer clinical trial at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - About 100,000 people in the U.S. are living with sickle cell disease. Most of them are of African descent. A blood drive Saturday aims to fill a need for those patients. Dale ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Going to the movies, hanging out with friends, playing video games — Jamal Bailey is your typical young adult who likes walking. But sometimes even something as simple as walking can ...

Stem cell transplants that are a standard treatment for certain blood cancers are out of reach for many patients. The procedure requires cells from a matched donor, but a match isn’t always available.