Hemoglobins, ancient proteins with well-known roles in oxygen transport and respiration in animals, are also present in plants and bacteria, but until now the physiological role of plant ...

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The most important disease in this group is sickle cell-Hgb G disease, in which the patient is heterozygous for Hgb S and Hgb C. 8,11,56,76,78,79,92 ...

IN 1949 Pauling and his associates1 described sickle-cell hemoglobin and introduced into medicine the concept of the molecular disease, a concept that implies that certain diseases are caused by ge ...

“Hemoglobins are very ancient proteins,” he notes. Scientists first discovered them in the bright-red nodules of soybean roots in 1939 but have yet to determine the proteins' role in plants in ...

Thanks to the marine worm <i>Platynereis dumerilii</i>, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists from CNRS, Université de Paris and Sorbonne Université, in association with others at ...