Readings from Scientific American


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Hemoglobin, Myoglobin, and Oxygen Transport

2/54 55 See Category 6.
8/56 87 "Sickle Cells and Evolution." A. Allison; a discussion about the mutated hemoglobin responsible for sickle cells and their surprising advantage under certain conditions.
1/57 95 See category 6.
1/58 68 "How Do Genes Act?" Ingram; the change in a single amino-acid unit alters the properties of human hemoglobin.
11/64 64 "The Hemoglobin Molecule." Perutz; structure of how atoms are arranged.
5/65 110 "The Evolution of Hemoglobin." Emile Zuckerkandl.
11/65 108 "The Ice Fish." Johan T. Rund. A species of arctic fish has no red blood cells and no hemoglobin. Environmental and physiologic compensatory factors discussed. Very interesting!
11/68 46 "The Prevention of Rhesus Babies." Clarke; explains the problem of Rh incompatibility and means of combating it.
11/70 72 See Category 6.
2/71 88 "The State of Water in Red Cells." Arthur K. Solomon. How there seems to be something peculiar about it, but the water is just "good old water."
4/75 44 "Cyanate and Sickle Cell Disorders." Cerami; effects of treatment of Sickle cell anemia by attachment of cyanate to the Sickle cell itself.
12/78 92 "Hemoglobin Structure and Respiratory Transport." M. F. Perutz; "clicking" of molecules between two structures improves its performance; Nobel laureate, in his area.


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