How enzymes don’t work

The late, great Linus Pauling, twice Nobel laureate (chemistry and peace) and advocate of mega doses of vitamin C for beating disease and extending life (he died at the ripe old age of 93) was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
He worked out how nature’s catalysts, proteins known as enzymes, speed [...]

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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
 - Soren Kierkegaard

Conferncia sobre "Microbiologia e Biologia do Cancro" – 11 Dez FFUP (NEBIOQ-UP)

Dia 11 de Dezembro no Anfiteatro da FFUPVai decorrer na Faculdade de Farmcia da U. Porto uma conferncia sobre "Microbiologia e Biologia do Cancro", organizada pela Prof. Doutora Helena Vasconcelos Meehan do Servio de Microbiologia da FFUP.Organizada a pensar…

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The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself, or with the Supreme Being. As to the corporeal world, though there are many other sorts of consents, yet the sweetest and most charming beauty of it is its resemblance of spiritual beauties. The reason is that spiritual beauties are infinitely the greatest, and bodies being but the shadows of beings, they must be so much the more charming as they shadow forth spiritual beauties. This beauty is peculiar to natural things, it surpassing the art of man.
 - Jonathan Edwards

New Version of rpubchem (So much to do, so little time)

Version 1.4.3 of rpubchem is out on CRAN. There’s some minor code cleanups and also a new function called get.aid.by.cid which allows you to get assay ID’s based on whether they contain a compound (either as an active, inactive, discrepant or just…

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