Devin McCourty

The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.

American Football Player

Scott Gottlieb

Science offers the chance to cure debilitating and once-intractable disorders like hemophilia and sickle cell disease. But we need to make sure the ability to access these therapies, or the risk that someone can be locked out of them, doesn't widen gaps between the rich and poor.

American Public Servant

Martina Navratilova

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

American Tennis Player

Prodigy

The aggressiveness of it attracted me to hip-hop because I was angry inside. I was an angry kid because of the sickle cell. So I liked the anger in hip-hop. That's what attracted me to it; that's what made me want to do it. It helped me get my aggression out.

American Musician

Jerry Lewis

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

American Comedian

Danny K. Davis

Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.

American Politician

Jason McCourty

We know that we carry the sickle cell trait, and we know we want to have kids, we want to reproduce, and the partner that we find, those are the questions we have to ask.

Tionne Watkins

I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

Russian Inventor

Mike Conley Jr.

Sickle cell disease has personally affected my family.

American Basketball Player

Understand sickle as a farmer's instrument, mostly used before modern machinery.

Agricultural Tool

Using a sickle involves a swinging motion which can be tiring, signifying hard work.

Physical Motion

The sickle's curved blade is designed to slice through materials effectively.

Cutting Action

The sickle shape is often associated with a phase of the moon, reflecting a celestial look.

Astronomical Reference

A sickle moon can symbolize the passage of time or change, as it appears nightly.

Visual Symbolism

When learning medical terms, sickle references the abnormal shape of cells in certain diseases.

Health Condition

The term is used in a specialized context of medicine and healthcare, particularly hematology.

Specific Context

 And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.

How this disease changes...

 can only complete its life cycle in normal, round red blood cells. By changing the shape of a person's red blood cells, the sickle cell mutation confers protection against malaria. People with the mutation aren't less likely to get bitten by the mosquitoes that transmit the disease,

An evolutionary...

 and sickle cell anemia. We can diagnose disease faster and more cost-effectively by writing and reading DNA. And already we can add pieces of DNA in the cell of the immune system to identify and kill cancer cells in patients. Thanks to advances like this,

How synthetic biology...

 like I kind of I made it happen yeah it which brings up one of the things I love about your writing is it's so beautiful and on a certain level you read it and you think what a parody sickle life you have you get up in the morning and you pick

Every Day in Tuscany PIPE...

 you see that's what I'm saying with them with the sickle Bush with him being a little bit under the weather and then showing the ribs and everything you know the guy and I feed on a sickle bush and and I'm sure bless you said that was zip

Safari Live - Day 142 PIPE...

 universe fortunately the thorns by the trees don't really affect the elephants and the inner parts of the elephant mouth is adapted to eat this kind of thorn trees ferns are nothing compared to the spines elephants eat the sickle

Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...

 Let's jump this way, though. Now, we risked Richard's life, it's only fair we risk our own lives. So to do that, I will juggle these three razor-sharp sickles. And if that wasn't enough, and judging by your response, it's not

Raspyni Brothers:...

 just a very green decree status no sickle Bush so a lot of our trees and bushes are evergreen one of the most important ones in terms of animals due to its palatability is the ziziphus or buffalo thorn

Safari Live - Day 125 PIPE...

 doctor called and said you have one angle that is fully match Caesar and doesn't have sickle cell I felt like his Christmas and you just get the best gifts because even though he was doing

A Child Prodigy, a...

 victim of one of these rare blood diseases and I looked at him he couldn't say much and then this chair later I found out he had a sickle cell