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Professor Falusi conducts research on the genetics of Sickle Cell Disease. She is currently focused on awareness and education of the public on sickle cell disease. She is a co-founder of Sickle Cell Association of Nigeria (SCAN), as well as the founder and trustee of the Sickle Cell Hope Alive Foundation.
The flag of Molvanîa is called the "Trikolor" despite the fact it only contains two colours: red and yellow. During the Soviet occupation, the flag had a yellow hammer and sickle in the top left corner. After the fall of communism, Molvanîa became one of the few ex-Soviet states to retain the hammer and sickle, but added a trowel into the ...
The sickle cell trait provides a survival advantage against malaria fatality over people with normal hemoglobin in regions where malaria is endemic. The trait is known to cause significantly fewer deaths due to malaria, especially when Plasmodium falciparum is the causative organism.
The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of Nice annexed in 1860, whose coastline is known in English as the French Riviera and in French as the Côte d'Azur; and the southeastern part of the former ...
CHORI is the first research institute in North America to transplant and cure a child with alpha thalassemia major, [citation needed] is a leading center for the use of cord blood and bone marrow transplantation in children with sickle cell anemia and thalassemia, and offers the only not-for-profit Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program in the world. [4]
West Africans (e.g., Mende of Sierra Leone), bearing the Senegal sickle cell haplotype, [216] [194] may have migrated into Mauritania (77% modern rate of occurrence) and Senegal (100%); they may also have migrated across the Sahara, into North Africa, and from North Africa, into Southern Europe, Turkey, and a region near northern Iraq and ...
Atiim Kiambu Hakeem-Ah "Tiki" Barber Sr [1] (/ ˈ t iː k i /; born April 7, 1975) is an American former professional football running back who spent his entire 10-year career with the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL).
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