I moved to Panama in September 2008. It was April 2009, it was around Seman Santa time, Easter in the English speaking world. I was asleep in Apartment 21 on the 3rd floor (4th if you counted the hotel rooms below). I was dreaming (I don’t recall about what) when […]

Sickle cell trait describes a condition in which a person has one abnormal allele of the hemoglobin beta gene (is heterozygous), but does not display the severe symptoms of sickle cell disease that occur in a person who has two copies of that allele (is homozygous) […]