Interpreting AlphaFold predictions
On the right-hand side of the screen, you’ll see a green plot. This is graphically depicting the Predicted Aligned Error […]
What’s in a name? A lot! How to get the most info you can out of enzyme, molecule, & pathway names
Longer list of word parts to know: https://bit.ly/biochemistry_word_parts & https://bit.ly/biochemwordparts & https://youtu.be/i3EYjveeGl4 More on enzyme classes and EC numbers: https://bit.ly/ec_numbers […]
Spectro-what-a? (spectroscopy, spectrometry, chromatographs, chromatograms, and other words for which I always have to remind myself which is which)
I’m always having to remind myself when to use what term when it comes to spectroscopy, spectrometry, spectrometers, etc. Not […]
Phage therapy
Bacteria are becoming resistant to conventional antibiotics at an alarming rate. Bacteriophages (phages), viruses that infect bacteria, have bacterial-killing defenses […]
Commonly misspelled, miscapitalized, mis-auto-corrected, confused and/or misused biochemistry terms
More on homology and related terms: Homology terminology (homolog, ortholog, paralog) – plus sequence similarity and identity Google doc version: […]
The biochemical dope on levodopa
If you’re like me before a year ago, if you thought of Parkinson’s disease (PD), you thought of the uncontrollable […]
PCR for Problematic Proteins? Seed Amplification Assays (SAAs)(e.g. PMCA & RT-QuIC) for measuring amyloid precursors and formation
A number of diseases, including the common neurodegenerative diseases Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) share a common cellular […]
When protein folding goes rogue: amyloids and prion-like protein misfolding at the heart of some diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
Since Stanley Prusiner discovered prions, so-called “infectious proteins” best known for causing “mad cow disease,” it has become clear that […]
