2023 Similarly, African Americans have a lower frequency of the sickle-cell disease than their ~80% West African ancestry would entail, because without the pressure of endemic malaria selection for the heterozygote was removed, allowing for the purging of the allele from the gene pool.

2023 The hammer and sickle tattoo on their butt is exactly at my eye level. 2023 In the trailer, Law sports a long, frizzy gray wig and a furry mustache while wielding the villain’s signature sickle.

2023 In India, which has the second-highest rate of sickle-cell prevalence in the world, hydroxyurea is often difficult to access, said Gautam Dongre, secretary of India’s first national sickle cell patient advocacy group, whose two children suffer from the disease. 2023Īdjective The faulty gene causes blood cells to become misshapen into a characteristic crescent or sickle shape that can slow or halt blood flow, damaging tissues and leaving patients in extreme pain. Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2017 Since then, scientists there have made key discoveries in critical areas of medical research, from early tests of AZT in people with AIDS to recent success in curing patients with sickle-cell anemia. 2021 So the investigator had every worker lay down his tool in a field, and observed that just one sickle attracted blowflies, which were known to seek out blood. 2022 Military aircraft flew in formation across the dark sky, using what appeared to be flares to form the symbol of the Workers’ Party - a hammer, brush and sickle. 2023 The dancers circled a group of performers who held up yellow flowers to form the symbol of the Workers' Party of Korea - a hammer, brush and sickle. 2023 Simply grab the grass with one hand and hold the sickle in the other to slice through. 2023 These new shears, shovels and sickles don’t just appeal for their lovely curves. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023 And last year, archaeologists uncovered an unusual example of people using these tips in a 17th-century Polish cemetery near Bydgoszcz: a female skeleton buried with a sickle placed across her neck, as well as a padlock on the big toe of her left foot. Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. Noun Cala Saladeta, Ibiza, Spain On the west coast of the White Isle lies Cala Salada, a little cove backed by thick shrubbery, with a sickle of sand and rock slabs cantilevered over the water to moor boats against or sunbathe on.

The Look Book by Chris Sickles