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  2. Aeroflot - Wikipedia

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    The "winged hammer and sickle" is the most recognisable symbol of Aeroflot. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, service expanded significantly. [ 33 ]

  3. Sickle cell disease - Wikipedia

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    Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders that are typically inherited. [2] The most common type is known as sickle cell anemia. [2] Sickle cell anemia results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. [2]

  4. List of airline liveries and logos - Wikipedia

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    Aeroflot: Russian national flag, with traditional winged hammer and sickle used on fuselage. A new livery was adopted in 2003. Air Algérie: The company logo is a swallow, which is the national bird of Algeria. Air Belgium: Belgium flag on tail and fuselage. The logotype, a crowned AB, accompanies the flag on the tail.

  5. Hammer and sickle - Wikipedia

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    The hammer and sickle (Unicode: U+262D ☭ HAMMER AND SICKLE) is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I , the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing the peasants.

  6. Sick cell syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Sick cell syndrome is a medical condition characterised by reduced functioning of the cellular Na+/K+ pump, [1] which is responsible for maintaining the internal ion homeostasis. The clinical result is a rise in blood K+ level and drop of blood Na+ levels

  7. James V. Neel - Wikipedia

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    1949: "The Inheritance of Sickle Cell Anemia"- Published in Science 110: 64-66, this paper explored how a single gene mutation is responsible for the inheritance of sickle cell anemia. Neel's research and analysis supported the pattern of a mutation occurrence in the hemoglobin subunit β (HHB gene) which is responsible for providing ...

  8. Anthony Clifford Allison - Wikipedia

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    In 1954 he discovered, confirming his preconception, that people with sickle-cell trait are resistant to the deadly falciparum malaria. In the 1970s, Allison had worked out the enzyme, inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase , as a key molecule of the immune response in autoimmune diseases and in organ transplantation .

  9. Yvette Francis-McBarnette - Wikipedia

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    Francis-McBarnette was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 10 May 1926 to schoolteachers Clarence and Sarah Francis. [2] The family moved to New York City when she was a toddler. She graduated from Hunter College High School at the age of 14, then she enrolled at Hunter College and completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry, followed by a master's degree in chemistry at Columbia University.