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Science 19 November 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5444, pp. 1488 - 1490
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5444.1488
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Perspectives

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MOLECULAR MEDICINE:
Enhanced: "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease"

Bruno J. Strasser

Fifty years ago this month, Linus Pauling published his seminal Science paper describing the difference in electrophoretic mobilities between normal hemoglobin and that from patients with sickle cell anemia. In so doing he founded the field of molecular medicine, as Strasser explains in a lively Perspective that looks at the discovery and its aftermath.

The author is in the Louis-Jeantet Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Geneva, CMU, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. E-mail: bruno.strasser{at}medecine.unige.ch

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