Beam reports breakthrough results from BEAM-101's early-stage trial for severe sickle cell disease. Read more here.

Sickle cell disease is caused by a problem in the hemoglobin-beta gene found on chromosome 11. The defect forms abnormal hemoglobin. Both your parents need to pass the abnormal hemoglobin gene on ...

Some doctors told him he'd live with the disease forever, but Khaled Alsheebani never stopped believing treatments would advance one day.

Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another ... Cystic fibrosis Chromosomal mutation Inversion One region of a chromosome is flipped and reinserted Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome Deletion ...

Sickle cell is caused by an autosomal recessive mutation on one of the chromosomes we inherit from our parents, meaning that in order for someone to have the condition, they have to inherit this ...

Victoria Gray, the first person cured of sickle cell using CRISPR gene editing therapies, spoke in Fargo about her journey and the need to lower the $2M treatment cost.

Chromosomes are tightly coiled structures in each of your cells that contain DNA, the code for all life. DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 ...

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...

Despite some recent setbacks to its sickle cell disease (SCD) pipeline, Pfizer is plowing ahead in improving education around ...

More information: Chao Xia et al, ChromTR: chromosome detection in raw metaphase cell images via deformable transformers, Frontiers of Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11684-024-1098-y ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell’s ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA – its genome – and segregate ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies. How the cell ...