Abnormal Red Blood Cells Forming (VIDEO)

Florida Atlantic University

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Sickle cell disease is a hereditary blood disorder that affects red blood cells, distorting their natural disc shape into a crescent moon or "sickle" shape.

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Melanie Gonick/MIT [with footage from Ming Dao]; <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>.

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