ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Center for Inherited Blood Disorders (CIBD) announced the successful administration of the first gene therapy infusion in the country to treat hemophilia A ...

Canadian Senators Jane Cordy and Marie-Françoise Mégie joined the GANSID CEO, Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, M.S.M and the World Inherited Blood Disorders community in the #TieRed Campaign From Blood drives to ...

According to a new study, scientists can now prevent children being born with various genetic disorders by creating three-parent babies. Researchers in Britain used this technique to assist several ...

Inherited platelet disorders represent a heterogeneous group of genetic conditions that affect the number, size, or function of platelets, with clinical manifestations ranging from mild mucocutaneous ...

When a child inherits a genetic condition, it often means both parents unknowingly carried genetic variations that, when combined, led to the disease. Modern genetic testing now allows families to ...

As newborn screening and rapid DNA sequencing become routine, we are poised to catch and treat inherited diseases at their earliest stages. Today, we can intervene in the first days or weeks of life.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The period between the 1920s and 1950s was a time of significant progress and exciting discoveries in gene therapy history and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness. Investigators from Mass General Brigham used large public biobanks to determine that ...

The Global Action Network for Sickle Cell & other Inherited Blood Disorders (GANSID), together with its partners and supporters, is preparing to celebrate the inaugural World Inherited Blood Disorders ...