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The poetic language of health

When his doctors could only offer phone consultations, James Morland turned to poetry to make sense of the medical terms describing his symptoms and test results.

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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.

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Eating their own kind

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

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  • HIV enzymes: reverse transcriptase, integrase, and protease
  • Let's talk... : RNA, DNA, genes, proteins, enzymes, cells, bacteria, peptides : Heto makes it faster, esier, safer, more efficient / Heto-Holten A/S.
  • Let's talk... : RNA, DNA, genes, proteins, enzymes, cells, bacteria, peptides : Heto makes it faster, esier, safer, more efficient / Heto-Holten A/S.
  • Let's talk... : RNA, DNA, genes, proteins, enzymes, cells, bacteria, peptides : Heto makes it faster, esier, safer, more efficient / Heto-Holten A/S.
  • ATPase (adenosine triphosphatase) is a class of enzymes that aid the breakdown of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) into ADP (Adenosine diphosphate) with a release of energy.
  • A man tossing (?) tea leaves in a shallow basket, to help the release enzymes (?) necessary for oxidation. Gouache by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • HIV enzyme integrase
  • HIV enzyme protease
  • Angiotensin I-converting enzyme
  • Enzyme complexes on mitochondrial cristae
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