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sickle

[sik-uhl] / ˈsɪk əl /


NOUN
machete
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VERB
mow
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A model of how one of GluBio’s experimental ‘molecular glue’ drugs causes two proteins in the human body, WIZ and cereblon, to stick to each other in a way designed to relieve sickle cell disease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

So I’ve always been aware of it, and I’ve lost now four friends to sickle cell.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

While making the project, his mother suffered two strokes, his brother was treated for psychosis, and his younger sister died of sickle cell anaemia.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

"The first gene editing drug approved for a blood disease -- sickle cell anemia -- targets a cell-type specific enhancer."

From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2025

Vellya Paapen never found the nutmeg tree, and had to buy himself a new sickle.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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