Word: proteins
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...toxin is an enzyme, a type of protein that accelerates the rate of chemical reactions by bringing reactants together in the enzyme’s active site...
Hoekstra added that they also want to learn which of the changes actually cause the protein to become toxic...
...long term goal is to reconstruct the protein mutation by mutation and see if all of the amino acid changes are really necessary,” Hoekstra said...
...separate area of research, Xie at Massachusetts General tested another anesthetic, isoflurane, on a culture of human brain cells. (Isoflurane had already been shown to cause cognitive impairment in rats.) He saw a vicious cycle of apoptosis and the accumulation of beta-amyloid protein - the sticky plaques that build up in Alzheimer's patients' brains - among the cells. But in this case, it may have been an excess of calcium that led to cell death. Xie and his colleagues have since found that the Alzheimer's drug memantine, which works by reducing calcium levels inside cells, can slow the rate...
...some. I don't read a lot of memoirs. I'm very narrow in all my interests. I am cut from the same cloth as my older, Aspergian brother and probably Aspergian father. If I could, I would eat the same exact thing every day. It would be just protein bars and nothing else, no deviation ever. (See pictures of crazy Christmas traditions...