Hey U! Do you have a Sec? SH! Lighten up, it’s not the cysteine chapel! Sulfur vs. selenium may not seem like a […]

Sometimes serine is serene – other times it’s sabotaging other proteins by providing the blade to “protein scissors” called serine […]

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 […]

You never know where a scientific exploration will take you – I’m learning so much about so many different things […]

Dream small! You don’t hear that said a lot, but I’ve always been more interested in the super close and […]

Arguing about arginine? And what “basicity” means? Today I want to introduce you to the last of the “basic” amino […]

Today I His-tagged our His-smas tree… HISTIDINE (His, H) may be an amino *acid* but it can also be a […]

Before he could be “SAM I am” he was METHIONINE. Have you Met yet? You can find him in green […]

Time to “Schiff base” & talk about the amino acid LYSINE (Lys, K)! Move over Kelloggs, this “K” is way […]