sickle cell anemia
...lls and clog vessels. It causes severe pain to the patient because it deprives organs ad tissues of adequate blood supply. It originated in Africa and the Middle East thousands of years ago. The study shows that it lowers the death rates among people suffering from this disease. This drug is commonly used in cancer and AIDS patients. The reason this drug is not used as it should be s because a lot of doctors think its too much work for them. After reading chapter 13 I had learned that most mutations come about in the body’s somatic cells and arise in germ-line cells. I already knew that the germ-line cells are heritable before even reading this article; they can be passed from generation to generation. I also knew that sickle cell anemia is the substitution of a single T for an A in the gene that codes for protein hemoglobin in red...