Klairabelle
@Klairabelle@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 day ago:
There’s a couple different chemical compounds that can activate your bitter receptors (caffeine for instance) but there are a few bitter chemicals like Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) or N-Propylthiouracil (PROP) that have been linked to variations in a specific gene (TAS2R38). Where I used to work we used PROP strips you’d just put on your tongue to categorize participants into tasters, non-tasters, and potential super-tasters. If it tasted like nothing, you didn’t have the genetic variant. If it tasted like bitterness, it could either be not that bad or, for example in my experience, it’s really really terrible and takes some effort to remove from the tongue.
- Comment on Everyone hide! 3 months ago:
I’m so glad someone got it lol
- Comment on Everyone hide! 3 months ago:
May I vote existential crisis moon?
- Comment on Frick 5 months ago:
If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.
- Comment on I promise we're not crabby. 5 months ago:
I’ll go ahead and make the immature post:
“Crab eating your what now?”
- Comment on Blot me out! 10 months ago:
In college, my mentor in the lab I worked in had perfect blots every single time. Mine were barely readable every time even though I followed protocol exactly, and asked for the prof to watch me sometimes. The girl I mentored in the lab had perfect blots every single time from her first run.
It was disheartening, I felt like an idiot haha
- Comment on Twitter 1 year ago:
You did good 😊
- Comment on Palms 1 year ago:
TREEEEEESSSS THEY ARE UUUUSSSSSS
- Comment on Put em up 1 year ago:
So this isn’t a real thesis defence?
- Comment on Caption this. 1 year ago:
This would have been Eddie if he had decided his evolutionary breakthrough was more protection instead of flying (Ice Age).
