It's only when you inherit the mutation from both parents that you get sickle-cell anemia.(只有当你同时遗传了父母双方的突变，你才会患上镰刀状细胞性贫血。)
A cancer drug called hydroxyurea (Droxia, Hydrea) also is used to treat sickle cell anemia.(羟基脲是一种抗肿瘤药，也可以用来治疗镰状细胞性贫血。)
Sickle-cell anemia is a blood disease that causes the cell to form a characteristic sickle-shape.(镰形细胞贫血症是一种能使细胞发生镰形变化的血液病。)
Approximately 5% of the world's population are healthy carriers of a gene for sickle-cell disease or thalassaemia.(全世界近5%的健康人口携带有镰状细胞病或地中海贫血的基因。)
To investigate BCL11A's therapeutic value, Orkin's team turned to a mouse model for sickle cell disease.(为了进一步研究BCL11A的治疗价值，奥尔金的研究小组转向镰状贫血症的白鼠模型。)
But Kosice's hammer-and-sickle past is never far away.(但是，镰刀铁锤统治科希策的日子并没有走得太远。)
Sickle-cell anaemia is passed on through a recessive gene.(镰状细胞贫血通过隐性基因遗传给后代。)
Approximately 5% of the world's population carries trait genes for haemoglobin disorders, mainly, sickle-cell disease and thalassaemia.(世界人口近5%携带血红蛋白疾患的特征基因，血红蛋白疾患主要包括镰状细胞病和地中海贫血。)
It replicates in a living organism data that might be useful to deliver new drugs for the treatment of sickle cell disease and other blood disorders.(它复制了活体组织的数据，可能会对研制治疗镰状贫血症及其他血液疾病的新药物有用。)
Family history. If your family has a history of an inherited anemia, such as sickle cell anemia, you also may be at increased risk of the condition.(家族史如果你有亲人患有遗传性的贫血，比如镰刀细胞性贫血，那么你患有这种贫血的风险也会比一般人高。)
