So, for a long time I've been into medicine and molecular biology. For obvious reasons, the two concepts are strongly associated with one another. Here is an insulin receptor. In green is the receptor. The blue border you see is the cell membrane. In purple is insulin. Receptors are proteins incorporated into the cell membrane which transmit signals upon binding to its ligand. In the case of the insulin receptor, the ligand is insulin. Upon association of insulin and its receptor, the kinase domains (the two knobs you see below the membrane) activate each other. Upon activation, the kinase domains of the receptor activate other proteins, which in turn activate other proteins until finally the cell does something. This is called a signal cascade. Insulin induces a signal cascade that results in the cell presenting more glucose channel proteins in its membrane. In this way, insulin regulates sugar levels in the bloodstream. Here are other views: At this angle, you can clearly see the insulin bound snuggly into a cavity in the insulin receptor. In blue is the membrane. Here, you can see the symmetry of the receptor. It looks like an inverted V. The receptor is made up of two halves. Upon insulin binding, the halves come together to form the active dimer. Here is EcoRI. Not sure if you've heard of this in science, but EcoRI is a restriction enzyme. Restriction enzymes are molecular scissors made by bacteria that serve to cut foreign DNA from plasmids and 'restrict' infection by bacteriophages. EcoRI is shown in this figure in blue, with DNA in magenta and wheat color. Here, EcoRI is bound tightly to the DNA. It is looking for a site which it will recognize and cut. Two parts of the enzyme fit in the small grooves of the DNA. EcoRI recognizes and cleaves at the sequence GAATTC. Another angle. After the foreign DNA is removed, the original plasmid DNA is stuck back together by DNA Ligase, shown here in green. Aside from all that info, what do you guys think of the graphics, and images in general? Thanks for opinions. Will update soon.
@MLGProGamer123 you should start a Thread Teaching People about periodic elements and what they do and are used for lol
Chemistry. I have mixed feelings for chemistry. Probably because I nearly blew myself up. But explosions.
I only use explosives or pyrotechnics when I intend to hurt myself. It's fun as all hell breaking loose when you need to put the fire on yourself out. Chemical explosions I am not fond of however, They leave a wicked sting after.
Yeah, I really hate how I always forget to look away from magnesium when it's burning. x_x The white spots in my eyes afterward are ridiculous.
That's because I just made it up on the spot. And before you ask, TMH is the unfortunate case of Too-Much-Hentai.
Maybe so, but it actually happened due to some trauma I had during a storm as a child when lightning struck my home and the surge of electricity blew up something that was over my head in the hallway I was in, It was so bright and loud I lost those two senses for a couple of minutes and they slowly came back over the course of the next few hours, they haven't been the same since.
Nah, I like having bad eye sight and hearing. Gets people to not be bothered by me listening to music and ignoring them because they know I can barely hear them either way.
Only con I can think of is that whenever a girl is calling me their voices are too soft for me to hear.
I can feel when someone is approaching me, I start to hear a high pitched whistle when someone is close for some annoying reason. Now that I think about it, it isn't much of a con because they tend to have to physically grab me to get my attention and that ain't so bad
