In this issue of Blood , Chen et al show that heme is released during erythrocyte hemolysis in sickle cell disease, activating the innate immune response and triggering the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) to promote lung injury.[1][1] ![Figure][2] Hemolysis releases
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Gladwin et al. (2014) studied this question.