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By Megan Sexton Qamccock Staff Writer USC researchers have found out how sickle cell anemia molecules are made, but the researchers haven't been able to determine why they form in that particular pattern. Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary genetic disorder whirh affects about eight percent of American blacks. Abnormal hemoglobin molecules distort normally round red blood cells into yy-y; - : ^ p||||| aYc COL moi Sickle cell sickle-shaped ones. Hemoglobin is the iron containing substance in red blood cells which takes oxygen through the body. When hemoglobin loses oxygen it sticks together and distorts the pliable red blood cells. The disease can only be passed on if both parents have the gene which produces the abnormal ^BIS BN i^w ' 'r^?r,J' ^: IMMI :g|: l__^ ^ _9E_ r iBWr r y *1 ?ML iW^mKr^ ^SP^^IIS . - WiwMKgJ^ '^filllW If you're under thirty, you ki Which means one of the th >ung Budgeter Account fror With it, you get fifteen chec ild save you enough money t The BankersTrust Young E nev on checking. So vou car ? BankersTr i j V U / ii ,<} fri nuOji' I baffles re. hemoglobin molecules, Elmer Amma ' of the Department of Chemistry said. USC is working closely with the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta on sickle cell anemia research. There is still no cure for sickle cell anemia. The drugs that have been used in the past to treat sickle ^ %-.H ^S&F ' tj^W ~iKX^ uv*V-7-Vy&? ' .* :swH hr^ ?: : > < ^ppBjj^p . *'' -^^t. ^SL ^SS ? : ' >x-a^.v . :: ; v: v. . > >: ;<-. : > : : a^ ; :W?w3BR- Wf JHBI now what you need? Everytt lings you don't need is unne n BankersTrust makes sen: ks per month with no servic :o buy some nice clothes or: Judgeter Account tor people -\ spend money on things yc ustYxingBudj 'V' , *v' . I | I searchers cell anemia often have bad side effects, Amma said. Many people who suffered from sickle cell anemia were treated with potassium cyanate, but this practice nas Deen stopped in most cases because of the side effects. A new type of treatment is now being used. This treatment recycles the blood plasma through ^ImI I m* j|jH|H HHP Ite t^B mmm , ^Ml^ ;. v.; 'ffilor -' :": '^ MBtei;;.'-;ic?::v oSSk* v.V. ^-\-Ti:'^3^'711 L^j* iV^j^1 Wm -J "ling. cessary expenses. That's v\ B6. :e charge. Over a year, that something else you really nc 3 under thirty* It saves you iu reallv need. geter Account a dialysis machine where the blood is treated and returned to the patient, Amma said. A chemical treatment of sickle cell anemia has to stop the hemoglobin molecules from opening up and "stop the abnormal interwining of the molecular parts," Amma said. Researchers have been working at the USC Chemistry lab for five years to try to learn more about this disorder. ^v: y^; ^ ?.^ ?^"^4 1 - j mll \^'><; "'" jS .: k flHRB ^^^^\->;>';v>' < :J W8 /hy ;ed. M k wot rt ujw w w