Interesting facts

Seeing nature through the eyes of a scientist magnifies its wonders. This post is a summary of interesting facts from the biological sciences that magnify the wonders of nature.

The degree of specialization of our cells is awe inspiring. The tiniest cells in our bodies contain about 300,000,000 hemoglobin molecules per cell, and your body makes 3,000,000 of these cells every second.

So, your body makes 900,000,000,000,000 hemoglobin molecules / second!

— Nikolai Slavov (@slavov_n) August 17, 2019

What is the mass of the full-length p53 protein (p53α) ?
No, it is not 53 kDa.
It is 43.7 kDa.

The large number of proline residues in p53 slow its migration on SDS-PAGE.

— Nikolai Slavov (@slavov_n) September 15, 2019

About 1,000 of your genes are involved in writing, reading, or erasing ubiquitin modifications. pic.twitter.com/rH31nk1g7J

— Nikolai Slavov (@slavov_n) January 1, 2020

What are the correlates of happiness? https://t.co/qIFG7Qs5ND pic.twitter.com/AKcXdNLUS8

— Nikolai Slavov (@slavov_n) September 28, 2019