Bluebird Bio will sell itself to private equity firms Carlyle and SK Capital for about $30 million, the company said Friday.

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Like recombinant DNA before it, gene editing has the potential to transform medicine, agriculture and more. CRISPR is now used by thousands of biologists in labs across the globe. A revolution in food ...

Bluebird bio went public in 2013, raising approximately $116m through its IPO. The company has developed three US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved gene therapy products, including Zynteglo ...

There is a catch. If the private equity firms can boost sales of bluebird’s three gene therapies to $600 million—over any ...

It's one of the top healthcare stocks in my portfolio. If I didn't already own this biotech stock, I wouldn't hesitate to buy ...