Unraveling Sickle Cell Disease: An In-Depth Examination

Emmanuel Osemota Foundation
4 min readAug 2, 2023

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Sickle cell disease is part of a group of inherited disorders (notably sickle cell anemia) that affect the structure of red blood cells, the body’s oxygen carriers.

Red blood cells, generally round and supple, navigate effortlessly through our blood vessels.

However, in sickle cell anemia, some of these cells assume the shape of sickles or…

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