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Tyrosine, hormones, neurotransmitters, catecholamines – and what the heck that means

December 8, 2019May 13, 2025

Did you get the catecholamine call? It’s ADRENALINE!!!!!!!!!!  Fight, flight, or flood your friends ‘ ears about finally getting your […]

Phenylalanine, aromaticity, hydrocarbons, functional groups, and more!

December 7, 2019December 7, 2024

If you liked it then you shoulda put benzene on it! Add a methylene linker and you get the phenomenal […]

Threonine, protein phosphorylation

December 6, 2019December 31, 2024

Three cheers for THREONINE! Once scientists identified the first amino acids, the race was on – Pokemon Go amino acid […]

Alanine, chirality, glucose-alanine cycle

December 2, 2019December 2, 2024

Fa L-Ala L-Ala L-Ala L-Ala! There’s a lot to love about ALANINE! It’s the smallest CHIRAL amino acid ever seen […]

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