Cows
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🐄🥛 “The Milkmaid’s Covenant”: Linking Cowpox Immunity to SCN⁻ in Raw Milk
In 1796, Edward Jenner famously inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps with material from the cowpox lesions of dairymaid Sarah Nelmes. Phipps did not contract smallpox when later exposed, confirming Jenner’s hypothesis:… Read more.
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A Closer Look at SCN⁻-Linked Tissues Harvested in Animal Mutilations vs. Tissues Harvested From Humans Via Healthcare
🧬 SCN⁻-Linked Reproductive Tissues in Humans Thiocyanate (SCN⁻) is present in various fluids and tissues associated with reproduction, especially where mucosal immunity, redox buffering, and epithelial integrity are critical. Here’s… Read more.
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Birth of the National Live Stock Association and a BBQ For the Ages
It’s the wild and woolly 1890s, and the West is wilder than a bronco with a burr under its saddle. Cattle rustlers are running amok, fences are getting cut and… Read more.
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Freemartin
A freemartin or free-martin (sometimes martin heifer) is an infertile female cattle with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries.[1] Phenotypically, the animal appears female, but various aspects of female reproductive development are altered due to acquisition of anti-Müllerian hormone from the male twin.[2] Genetically, the animal is chimeric: karyotypy of… Read more.
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Fetal bovine serum (FBS)
Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is derived from the blood drawn from a bovine fetus via a closed system of collection at the slaughterhouse. Fetal bovine serum is the most widely used serum-supplement for the… Read more.
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Glycodelin is found in oocyte and sperm
aka human placental protein-14 Read more.
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The trefoil knot fold is a protein fold in which the protein backbone is twisted into a trefoil knot shape
“Shallow” knots in which the tail of the polypeptide chain only passes through a loop by a few residues are uncommon, but “deep” knots in which many residues are passed… Read more.
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Tracheal cytotoxin (TCT) is a soluble piece of peptidoglycan (PGN) found in the cell wall of all gram-negative bacteria, but only some bacteria species release TCT including Bordetella pertussis, Vibrio fischeri, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Tracheal cytotoxin (TCT) is a 921 dalton glycopeptide released by Bordetella pertussis, Vibrio fischeri (as a symbiosis chemical), and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (among other peptidoglycan-derived cytotoxins it produces). It is a soluble piece of peptidoglycan (PGN) found in the cell wall of all gram-negative bacteria, but only some bacteria species… Read more.
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Fibroin is an insoluble protein present in silk produced by numerous insects
Fibroin is an insoluble protein present in silk produced by numerous insects, such as the larvae of Bombyx mori, and other moth genera such as Antheraea, Cricula, Samia and Gonometa. Silk in its raw state consists of two main proteins, sericin and fibroin,… Read more.
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Acidophiles in acid mine drainage
The outflow of acidic liquids and other pollutants from mines is often catalysed by acid-loving microorganisms; these are the acidophiles in acid mine drainage. Acidophiles are not just present in exotic environments such as Yellowstone National… Read more.
