Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints ...

Sickle cell disease is a devastating, inherited blood disorder that affects an estimated eight million people worldwide and ...

Corey Mitchell, once a dedicated police officer, now battles multiple sclerosis and inspires others by hosting blood drives ...

Caden Major was born with sickle cell disease – an inherited blood disorder affecting red blood cells. Now at 19 years old, ...

At the Cleveland Clinic, doctors are using a one-time gene-editing therapy that alters a patient’s own blood-forming stem cells to correct the genetic mutation responsible for the disease. Physicians ...

Major is one of the first pediatric patients in Florida to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease since the FDA ...

Your morning coffee might do more than wake you up – it could weaken donated blood. A large new study shows caffeine lowers red blood cell quality, making transfusions less effective, especially in ...

Two recent studies show the novel therapy works in people with multiple myeloma, but researchers are trying to minimize side ...

Patients with <7/8 transplants had a 1-year survival of 85.6% versus 78.6% for those who received better-matched donor cells.

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

Erythropoietin, the protein that drives red blood cell formation, also induces tolerance in dendritic cells, leading to the ...

Fans in attendance on Dec. 15, 19 and 22 can join the national blood stem cell donor registry by getting their cheeks swabbed ...