Selenocysteine, selenoproteins, translation trickery
Wait a Sec! I thought U said this was #20DaysOfAminoAcids?! I know this is supposed to be #20DaysOfAminoAcids, because there […]
Wait a Sec! I thought U said this was #20DaysOfAminoAcids?! I know this is supposed to be #20DaysOfAminoAcids, because there […]
I would always get really confused about why we call the negatively charged amino acids “acidic” and the + charged […]
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I’ve talked a lot about how scientists can try to figure out a protein’s structure (the way the protein’s atoms […]
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MSG? Fine by me! It’s just a salt of glutamate, so why does everyone gotta hate? From giving food its […]
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a devastating and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive motor, cognitive, and psychological deterioration. It […]
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I’ve always been more interested in the super close and super small than the super far and super big. So, […]