Just today, I happen to have looked into what exactly keratin is. (The stuff that makes up your hair and finger nails.) It’s solid protein, made all the more solid (and all the less water-soluble) by the presence of the sulfer-containing amino acid cysteine. And fingernails have more of it than hair. Who knew?
DNA->Rna->Protein
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TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Me, I did, I knew that! It’s why I try to merely bury my obscenely rich murder victims instead of incinerating them, as it’s really quite stinky. Ewww :(
iatenine@piefed.social 1 day ago
Well that’s a confession if I’ve ever heard one
Hey, everybody: THIS PERSON IS RICH!
palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 1 day ago
FIR mentioned Absolute Cinema
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Let’s replicate!”
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Prion is paranoid
cadmiumsandbox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
hurray sab tv show mention
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
They released 440 episodes in two years? 😮
www.imdb.com/title/tt2263530/