: a colorless protein obtained by removal of heme from a conjugated protein and especially hemoglobin
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People who were possibly exposed received post-exposure prophylaxis immune globin, using plasma containing antibodies to immediately protect against measles.
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Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
The haemoglobin protein is a made of two slightly different molecules – alpha-globin and beta-globin – and people with beta-thalassaemia have faults with the latter.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2010
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
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
Four globin units, two alpha and two beta, make up hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of red blood cells.
—Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
Compounding the problem is that hemoglobin, when unprotected in blood plasma, decomposes into its component globin subunits.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
Once the stem cells were collected, they were sent to a lab where they were transduced with LentiGlobin, which inserted that healthy beta-globin gene.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
The haemoglobin protein is a made of two slightly different molecules – alpha-globin and beta-globin – and people with beta-thalassaemia have faults with the latter.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2010
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
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
Four globin units, two alpha and two beta, make up hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of red blood cells.
—Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
Compounding the problem is that hemoglobin, when unprotected in blood plasma, decomposes into its component globin subunits.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
Once the stem cells were collected, they were sent to a lab where they were transduced with LentiGlobin, which inserted that healthy beta-globin gene.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
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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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