Your body recycling itself -- captured on film

Monday, September 13, 2010 - 11:21 in Biology & Nature

Proteins are made up of a chain of amino acids, and scientists have known since the 1980s that first one in the chain determines the lifetime of a protein. Researchers have finally discovered how the cell identifies this first amino acid -- and caught it on camera.

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