#Amino

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

We're going to hear more and more about various COVID mutations in the coming weeks and months. Their names, N501Y, D614G, etc. seem cryptic, and they are, but they are

John Carlos Baez

johncarlosbaez

This doghouse was hit by a meteorite while a dog named Rocky was sleeping inside.But the interesting part is that the meteorite contained amino acids - the building blocks of

Carrie

CarolFitzmwangi

Oh, btw I’m here to tell y’all to never become vegetarians. It’s the hipster thing to do but the human body wasn’t biologically wired to subsist on plants. A mini

Valerie, RD, MPH

RDValerie

Short thread on proteinThere are 8/9 essential amino acids (depending on the source) that you must get from food. The others 11/12 are considered non-essential or conditionally essential, because you

Eugene Gu, MD

eugenegu

Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is made by artificially creating a messenger RNA sequence in the lab that instructs your own cells to put together the right amino acids in the right

DeepMind

DeepMind

Yesterday we shared the news that #AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ by #CASP14, the biennial Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction. But what

Darihana Nova

DarihanaNova

Why your glutes aren’t growing; a thread You’re constantly cutting back on calories. Optimal muscle growth requires adequate calories. Constant dieting and restriction of calories makes it extremely hard for

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

With emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 and initial evidence of antigenic evolution, I've seen comparisons here to seasonal influenza and its rate of evolution. In this thread, I want to ground

ロコちゃん - hereticalupdate.substack.com

RokoMijicUK

Yes, anyone who is a long-time Less-wrong/SL4 fan must surely have thought of this classic post by Eliezer. I should pour some cold water on that though: this advance by

Brett Marlin ☠️

michaelbmarlin

I try to stay out of the health food industry and GMO debate but since I came across this post by @thefoodbabe on IG I’ve felt obliged to reply Methyl

NotTheMacAnon

NotTheMacAnon1

The USDA removed the table showing the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) of Selected Foods Release 2 (2010) table due to the lack of evidence that the antioxidant level present

TweetSains | Hakim

tweetsains

Perasan tak kalau kita goreng apa-apa makanan yang boleh digoreng, makanan tu akan jadi warna kekuningan? Kalau roti dibakar, akan jadi warna keperangan dan naik bau? Bau harum kopi lepas

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Pfizer study shows vaccine should work against this B.1.1.7 UK and South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2. mRNA sequence in Pfizer vaccine likely propietary but Pfizer took a virus with the

M. Eugenio Vázquez

ChemBioUSC

I just found out about Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, who is the founder of bioinformatics. Also (and that’s how I came to know her work) the inventor of the one-letter code

Tony Breu

tony_breu

1/Does the tryptophan in turkey really cause a food coma?I've heard this repeatedly, while also being told that it is a myth. Let's have a look at the physiology of

Herbiⓥore

herbivore_club

Of the 20 essential amino acids, 9 are actually essential. Of those nine, three are branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Leucine falls into both groups. All BCAAS are vital for building and repairing

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