Wilson Disease, also known as Wilson’s Disease or hepatolenticular degeneration, was first described in 1912 by Samuel Wilson. Wilson found that his patients had many…
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What is hereditary hemochromatosis? Hereditary hemochromatosis is a chronic disorder characterized by increased iron absorption. The increased iron absorption leads to the accumulation of iron…
Creutzfeldt and Jakob Disease (CJD) was identified as a rapid cognitive and neurological degenerative disease with symptoms very similar to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases only…
Angelman Syndrome was first described by Harry Angelman in 1965. Dr.Angelman was a general pediatrician from England observing three children who exhibited severe mental disabilities.…
BCM 441 LITERATURE SPOTLIGHT β-lactams are a prominent class of antibiotics including Penicillin which inhibit peptidoglycan cell wall synthesis in bacteria, leading to cell death.…
A model showing how downregulation of SQLE expression in ALK+ ALCLs renders the cells auxotrophic with respect to cholesterol. This act, in turn, causes squalene…
My incursion into the dense field of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research has revealed how limited our current knowledge is and how polarized some studies…
Figure 1. This is an illustration of how the rhomboid proteases distort membranes which do not fit their hydrophobic belt. A typical transmembrane protein is…
I’ve come up with a few possible choices for my disease project topic. There is one clear winner, as I will soon divulge. The choices…
Biochemistry is, at its core, an upper-level, interdisciplinary field within the natural sciences. To study it is to devote long-term time and energy to increase…
