Kevin Davies — Curved Air: A Biography of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Quest to Cure the First Molecular Disease - with Swee Lay Thein and LaRae Morning — at Conn Ave

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This event was rescheduled from 10/02 at The Wharf. How sickle cell anemia led the quest to edit the human genome while patients endured decades of racial discrimination and medical neglect. In December 1904, Walter Clement Noel, a dental student from Grenada, was admitted to a Chicago hospital with fever, jaundiced eyes, and ulcers covering his legs. When doctors examined his blood under a microscope, they were puzzled by his sickle shaped cells. His case became enshrined in the annals of medicine as the first report of sickle cell anemia, a fatal disease that starves the body's organs of oxygen, causing excruciating pain. In Curved Air https://politics prose.com/book/9780674293960 , Kevin Davies chronicles the story of sickle cell anemia from its ancient origins in S…

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