AMSTERDAM – Sickle cell disease is "the most frequent red blood cell disorder worldwide," Jo Howard, of King's College London, told the audience at the 24th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) on Friday. And with global migration patterns of the past decades, the disorder has gone from a tropical disease to global problem.

AMSTERDAM – "We are seeing a rapid explosion of new agents in malignancies," Nathan Cherny told the audience at the 23rd Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA).

Researchers at Columbia University have discovered that Vibrio cholerae has co-opted CRISPR Cas9 systems into transposons for horizontal gene transfer, and that those transposons were capable of site-specific gene editing without the need for double-stranded DNA breaks.

Scientists have discovered a pair of gut microbial enzymes that worked in tandem to convert blood cells of the type A to those of type O by removing the surface molecule alpha-1,3-linked-N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) from the surface of red blood cells.

Scientists have discovered a pair of gut microbial enzymes that worked in tandem to convert blood cells of the type A to those of type O by removing the surface molecule alpha-1,3-linked-N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) from the surface of red blood cells.

Scientists at University Hospital RWTH Aachen have trained a neural network to recognize microsatellite instability (MSI)-high gastrointestinal tumors directly from histology, without the need for genetic or immunochemistry testing. 

CHICAGO – Results from the phase III POLO trial presented at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO's) 2019 annual meeting on Sunday showed that treatment with Lynparza (olaparib, Astrazeneca plc/Merck & Co Inc.) after platinum chemotherapy nearly doubled the progression-free interval (progression-free survival, PFS) in a group of 154 metastatic pancreatic cancer patients with germline BRCA mutations, from 3.8 to 7.4 months.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have demonstrated that they were able to restore learning abilities in a rat model of fragile X syndrome (FXS) through temporary treatment with the cholesterol-lowering agent lovastatin. 

Characterized by large numbers of benign but highly disfiguring tumors, neurofibromatosis 1 (NF-1) is anything but a subtle disease. Because they are glaringly conspicuous, research into NF-1 has largely focused on the tumors themselves. But in the May 20, 2019, issue of PLoS ONE, researchers have reported new insights into the disease that stem from looking not at the tumors themselves but at tumor-free skin from NF-1 patients.