Freeze branding aka CryoBranding and the resulting brands, trichoglyphs, is a technique involving a cryogenic coolant instead of heat to produce permanent marks on a variety of animals
The coolant is used to lower the temperature of a branding iron such that its application to shaved skin will permanently alter hair follicles. T
Cupronickel or copper-nickel (CuNi) is an alloy of copper that contains nickel and strengthening elements, such as iron and manganese
The copper content typically varies from 60 to 90 percent. (Monel is a nickel-copper alloy that contains a minimum of 52 percent nickel.) Despite its high copper content, cupronic
Ferrochelatase catalyses the eighth and terminal step in the biosynthesis of heme, converting protoporphyrin IX into heme B
Protoporphyrin ferrochelatase (EC 4.98.1.1, formerly EC 4.99.1.1, or ferrochelatase; systematic name protoheme ferro-lyase (protoporphyrin-forming)) is an enzyme encoded by th
Heme metabolic intermediates
(porphyrin biosynthesis and heme degradation/excretion) and various other notes
Erich Traub (1906 – 1985) German veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease
Erich Traub worked directly for Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as the lab chief of the Nazis’ leading bio-weapons facility on Riems Island. Note: Rie
Hallak LK, Collins PL, Knudson W, Peeples ME. Iduronic acid-containing glycosaminoglycans on target cells are required for efficient respiratory syncytial virus infection. Virology. 2000 Jun 5;271(2):264-75. doi: 10.1006/viro.2000.0293. PMID: 10860881
So I was at Wikpedia reading about Goliath (because who in hell was Goliath? nobody knows) when I read: “According to the Jerusalem Talmud, Goliath was born by polyspermy,
This New Green Fuel Is Yellow: A Car That Runs On Urine – article by Nicola Pinna, 2013
This actually isn’t a new idea, but a Sardinian researcher named Franco Lisci has developed a way to get around the problems that prevented the use of urine as power un
Light and Medical Tests
From Ask a Scientist: “Serum and plasma both come from the liquid portion of the blood that remains once the cells are removed, but that’s where the similarities end.
Transferrins
Transferrins are not limited to only binding to iron but also to different metal ions.
Hephaestin, first identified in 1999 is homologous with ceruloplasmin
Named after Hephaestus, the Greek god of metal working
Nabil M. Elkassabany, Geralyn M. Meny, Rafael R. Doria, Catherine Marcucci; Green Plasma—Revisited. Anesthesiology 2008; 108:764–765 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181672668
We could find no reports on green plasma in the past 40 yr in either the surgical or the anesthesia literature, which perhaps explains the lack of knowledge on the part of today’
It Ain’t Easy Being Green
Is this why they have gone off the rails with the beta carotene and related things? Thoughts for another day. A search for “green plasma” at pubmed turns up 130 article
Wolf P, Enlander D, Dalziel J, Swanson J. Green plasma in blood donors. N Engl J Med. 1969 Jul 24;281(4):205. doi: 10.1056/NEJM196907242810407. PMID: 5790495.
ABSTRACT: Recently we have noticed that many plasmas in female blood donors have been extremely green. A green plasma in a unit of blood usually suggests the presence of a gram-neg
Tovey LA, Lathe GH. Caeruloplasmin and green plasma in women taking oral contraceptives, in pregnant women, and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Lancet. 1968 Sep 14;2(7568):596-600. PMID: 4175158.
ABSTRACT: Of blood donations reaching the Leeds Regional Blood Transfusion Laboratory about 1% have green plasma. Most of these come from women taking oral contraceptives, who cons
Ceruloplasmin carries more than 95% of the total copper in healthy human plasma and in addition plays a role in iron metabolism. It was first described in 1948.
Ceruloplasmin (or caeruloplasmin) is a ferroxidase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CP gene. Ceruloplasmin is the major copper-carrying protein in the blood, and in
Follistatin also known as activin-binding protein and formerly known as FSH-suppressing protein (FSP)
Follistatin also known as activin-binding protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FST gene. Follistatin is an autocrine glycoprotein that is expressed in n