Feb 17, 2016
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the structure of the Zika virus envelope, here is an animated gif overlaying the Dengue Virus envelope structure with the homology model of the Zika Virus structure....
Nov 25, 2014
This is tryptophan. OK, it’s not a vitamin, it’s an essential amino acid that we get from food. You may have heard that it makes you sleepy, and it actually can help you sleep, but probably not in the way that you’ve heard. No Thanksgiving dinner is...
Oct 30, 2014
A newly discovered virus could be affecting most of the population in the late days of October into early November this year. In it’s early stages the virus can completely change the behavior and appearance of the affected, and spreads as the victims travel from...
May 9, 2014
As my workload allows, I plan on spending some time revisiting many of the subjects from The Inner Life of the Cell, and where better to start than with a new version of this guy. The kinesin motor protein was a real scene stealer in Inner Life, although it...
