: a colorless protein obtained by removal of heme from a conjugated protein and especially hemoglobin
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Orkin discovered a way to take advantage of a natural source of healthy globin—a genetic sequence that is turned on during fetal development but is silenced in adults.
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TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
People who were possibly exposed received post-exposure prophylaxis immune globin, using plasma containing antibodies to immediately protect against measles.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
Once there, scientists will treat the cells with Bluebird’s gene therapy, made from a lentivirus that shuttles the beta-globin gene into the cells.
—Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
Even Linus Pauling, who famously discovered that sickle cell was caused by the substitution of a single amino acid in the globin protein, was part of this dismal history.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
Compounding the problem is that hemoglobin, when unprotected in blood plasma, decomposes into its component globin subunits.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
In his genome, neither copy of the beta-globin gene works at full capacity: one is either useless or produces an unstable protein; the other is completely broken.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2010
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TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
People who were possibly exposed received post-exposure prophylaxis immune globin, using plasma containing antibodies to immediately protect against measles.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
Once there, scientists will treat the cells with Bluebird’s gene therapy, made from a lentivirus that shuttles the beta-globin gene into the cells.
—Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
Even Linus Pauling, who famously discovered that sickle cell was caused by the substitution of a single amino acid in the globin protein, was part of this dismal history.
—Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
Compounding the problem is that hemoglobin, when unprotected in blood plasma, decomposes into its component globin subunits.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
In his genome, neither copy of the beta-globin gene works at full capacity: one is either useless or produces an unstable protein; the other is completely broken.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2010
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globin
noun
glo·bin
ˈglō-bən 
: a colorless protein obtained by removal of heme from a conjugated protein and especially hemoglobin
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