each containing the same kind of heme prosthetic group
found in myoglobin.
Red-blooded
The red color of blood
doesn’t come from the iron in it,
but from the porphyrin to which the iron is bound.
Nobody’s skin is naturally red
and everybody’s blood is red,
and the average person has average passions.
Being a great singer or artist
requires hard work and long study;
being an American, only being born here.
It would be difficult to overestimate the difficulty of this work.
It took Dorothy Hodgkin 35 years to fuss out the structure of insulin.
Kendrew and Perutz had to devise innovative tricks and techniques
to get from a frozen block of protein sufficient information about these complex structures.
It would be difficult to overestimate the difficulty of this work. It took Dorothy Hodgkin 35 years to fuss out the structure of insulin. Kendrew and Perutz had to devise innovative tricks and techniques to get from a frozen block of protein sufficient information about these complex structures.
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