sickle
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People with sickle cell are often at an increased risk of contracting serious infections or they can become anaemic, which is when red blood cells cannot carry enough oxygen around the body.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The father of a teenager from Guinea with sickle cell disease who died days after he was arrested for cheating in an exam has told the BBC he blames the authorities for his death.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Without any products on the market, Fulcrum Therapeutics had been striving to commercialize its experimental drug for sickle cell disease, but those plans appear to now be on hold.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
A model of how one of GluBio’s experimental ‘molecular glue’ drugs causes two proteins in the human body, WIZ and cereblon, to stick to each other in a way designed to relieve sickle cell disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
In 1951, working with Harvey Itano at Caltech, Linus Pauling demonstrated that the variant of hemoglobin found in sickle cells was different from the hemoglobin in normal cells.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Eighteen-year-old Noor Mohammad and 25-year-old Ahmad keep swinging their sickles to clear a remaining metre of grain.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
The toddler’s red blood cells, shaped like sickles instead of disks, had gotten stuck in blood vessels to his brain, injuring their fragile linings and blocking blood flow.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2021
Behind them, a small band of black men and women, dressed in early 1800s field pants and waistcoats, long flowing skirts and turbans, marched in tight military columns, wielding rakes, sickles and cane knives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2019
He drags behind him, attached by ropes, a heavy train of symbolic hardware: machetes, sickles, toy trucks and tractors, instruments of fertility or destruction, depending on how they’re used.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
The blades are rusty, the edges dull, and the pair of sickles I pick up ain’t even weighted properly.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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