Rubius Therapeutics makes its cell therapies from red blood cells, which could bring advantages compared to immune cells. Rubius’s pursuit of red blood cell-based cell therapies has had some ...

Sickle cell is an inherited blood disorder. It affects the shape of the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. The malformed blood cells caused by the ...

This could point to a treatment for malaria. People develop sickle-cell disease, a condition in which the red blood cells are abnormally shaped, if they inherit two faulty copies of the gene for ...