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Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Sickle Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that affects hemoglobin in the blood. [1:30]
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Tumor Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
See how cell division is essential for healthy growth of an organism, and how complex genetic mechanisms have evolved to switch cell division on and off at the proper time for normal development. [0:50]
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Dna Damage

For Students 9th - 10th
See how mutations in DNA can affect human cells, and how these mutations can even be corrected by biochemical repair work. [1:05]