Yeah it’s definitely way more than hallmark love story in lab

Brandon Taylor’s Real Life involves love and coming-of-age in a biochemistry lab… the location is not defined IIRC but the details are obviously the UW-Madison Biochem Addition

Why do you scan? Policy? Cheating? Make grading easier/better?

I’m no polymer chemist but isopropanol worked for me

Ah, thanks. I am blissfully unaware of the peanut details and I think I would like to keep it that way

Can you be more specific about the jurisdiction issues you mean? Because in the abstract I have no recollection of learning such things at school in the US

Fascinating… especially since I think a lot about enzymatic PET hydrolysis and how products ultimately feed into central metabolism and … glycolysis

Interesting! Side note, is this a common use of the term glycolysis? Glycolysis to me (US biochemist) refers specifically to the metabolic pathway for glucose, and I get very confused seeing it mean “cleavage-using-ethylene-glycol”

The Lehninger biochem textbook says she chose W for tryptophan as phonetically suggestive as well (tWyptophan). I like double ring represented as double U as well!