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• Using a rainbow to show how proteins fold

  Pull a spaghetti noodle out of a box of pasta and take a look.  It’s long…

• And the plant goes “moo” ? – a bioinformatics case study with insulin

  Sometimes when you go digging through the databases, you find unexpected things.
  When I was researching the…

• Don’t pine for me – some parts are not edible

  On pinene and inhibiting enzymes.
  People of a certain age may remember a series of really funny commercials…

• Insulin, sugar, and evolution

  In my last post, I wrote about insulin and interesting features of the insulin structure.  Some…

• While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads

  Molecules of sucrose tore apart in their bellies letting glucose course free in their veins.
  Luckily for…