Fat cells don't often receive praise in everyday life, but they probably deserve more credit, as they might be healing our wounds.

Some of humanity’s favorite antibiotics are starting to lose their mojo, in the face of smart, sneaky, and rapidly-evolving bacteria. To find new drugs to combat these superbugs, scientists are looking in some weird new places, like...

Scientists have been turning to the animal world for inspiration for a long time, including for medicines. And many different types of animals have been responsible for this inspiration, including sharks, spiders, and... roadkill.

Scientists are uncovering the mysteries of a non-addictive painkiller... that lives in your mouth <br/>

Unlike their friendly, flower-pollinating cousin, the bee, wasps are best known for stinging people, ruining picnics, and generally being jerks... so should we just totally get rid of them?

Hank fills us in on the endocrine system - the system of glands which produce and secrete different types of hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body's growth, metabolism, and sexual development & function.

Some common life-saving medicines, such as insulin, are made of proteins so large and fragile that they need to be injected instead of ingested as pills. But a new generation of medicine -- made from smaller, more durable proteins known...

What is proteomics? It's the study of the interactions, function, composition, and structures of proteins and their cellular activities. Dr. Chandni Kumar is a molecular biologist who works with proteins to ascertain all kinds of things...

Howcast - Check out part 2 of this walkthrough for this action RPG Deus Ex: Human Revolution and beat the introduction with this online demo.

Howcast - Learn what ingredients to look for in an eye cream from organic beauty products expert Spirit Demerson in this Howcast beauty video.

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Large molecules that are polymers of amino acids, linked in long chains by peptide bonds, and usually folded into a rough ball.
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In this episode of Nature League, Brit breaks down some life on Earth news from September of 2020, including baboon social structure, Australian stinging trees, and life-related molecules on Venus. Written, edited, and presented by: Brit...

Proteasome Mechanism: Threonine Hydrolysis

In this video, we discuss the physiological and biochemical differences between celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, both of which actually do exist, but are diametrically different in mechanism.

Killer Snails, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, is using a customized virtual reality (VR) game, BioDive, to develop an educational assessment tool that measures student learning in real-time.
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Protein Metabolism | Ubiquitination of Proteins & the 26S Proteasome