Sickle cell disease, also called sickle cell anemia, is a genetic condition that deforms red blood cells.

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It can be used given to people to who have certain kinds of anemia to stimulate blood cell production in a specific kind of way.

它能够用于那些,罹患某种贫血的人群,来以特定的方式刺激红细胞生成

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It's on the gene for hemoglobin and the hemoglobin that you produce if you have sickle cell anemia is not quite right because there's one base difference.

这个缺陷基因和血红蛋白有关,如果你有镰状红细胞贫血症,那你所产生的血红蛋白就不太正常,因为这里有一个碱基不同

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Sickle cell anemia is a disease that affects a subset of the population.

镰状红细胞贫血症,是一种作用于特定人群的疾病

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We talked about sickle cell anemia last time, that's an example.

上次我们讲过镰刀状贫血病,那就是一例

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This particular example involves the gene for sickle cell anemia.

本例子中就包括镰状红细胞贫血症的基因

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Erythropoietin, commonly called Epo and its function is to treat anemia because it stimulates blood cell production.

促红细胞素生成素,通常简称为EPO,它的作用是刺激红细胞生成,从而能够治疗贫血

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It's used to treat people that have - you've heard about Epo and blood doping, but it's a therapeutic protein as well and very useful for patients with anemia.

它用于治疗--,你听说过EPO,还有血液回输,而这也是个可用于治疗的蛋白质,治疗贫血很有效

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