Scarlet Therapeutics ("Scarlet") today announces a landmark preclinical result: its proprietary cell-line derived, universal, lab-grown red blood cells (“RBCs”) have successfully matured and ...

Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle ...

A reduced-intensity bone marrow transplant regimen developed by Johns Hopkins physicians provides durable engraftment with ...

Johns Hopkins APL researchers are investigating the viability and scalability of shelf-stable, freeze-dried red blood cells.

What a low white blood cell count really means Leukopenia, or low white blood cell count, can leave your body more vulnerable ...

T cells, which target infection and disease, can become more effective after a meal. The finding might help improve ...

A new way of using umbilical cord blood for treating blood diseases could make the treatment more accessible to patients who need a stem cell transplant. A Phase II clinical trial of patients ...

A new study suggests depression may soon be detectable through a simple blood test—by tracking how certain immune cells age.

Involving a collaboration with 118 investigators contributing from 89 institutions, scientists from Queen Mary University of ...

Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

For the first time in Germany, a long-term, sustainable access agreement to a gene therapy has been established for people living with sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia,” ...