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It was the sugar that our biology professors taught us about in the context of the coating of your cells.
Maybe you didn't know that your cells are coated with sugar.
And when I dug through my notes, what I noticed I had written down is that the sugar coating on our cells is like the sugar coating on a peanut M and M.
And people thought the sugar coating on our cells was like a protective coating that somehow made our cells stronger or tougher.
But for those of you who share the blood type O with me, what this means is that we have this chemical structure on the surface of our blood cells: three simple sugars linked together to make a more complex sugar.
That means you have an enzyme in your cells that adds one more building block, that red sugar, to build a more complex structure.
So, one of the changes that we study is an increase in the density of a particular sugar that's called sialic acid.
Sialic acid is not the kind of sugar that we eat.
This is a kind of sugar that is actually found at certain levels on all of the cells in your body.
But if that cancer cell has a dense forest of that sugar, sialic acid, well, it starts to taste pretty good.
And what if you could strip off that coat and take that sugar away?
His fictional alter ego, Kilgore Trout, supplied this parable: two yeast sat “discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement.
But it also contained high quantities of lactose – a sugar which is difficult to process for many ancient and modern stomachs.
And by manipulating sugar over a black paper, I made portraits of them.
We have to teach kids that if they're on a diet of refined sugar, they go up and down, just like if they're on a diet of crack.
On either side you see land being cleared for pasture, for cattle, but also for soy and sugar production.
Containing the sugars generated in leaves during photosynthesis, phloem sap is thick, like honey, and flows down the plant’s phloem tissue to distribute sugar throughout the tree.
Where the green chlorophyl converts light into sugar for plants, these cells convert light into electricity.
And you get a double whammy: you get all these calories that don't fill you up because you've removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.
The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar.
Just as we humans digest carbon or food into chunks of sugar that we then use for energy, so too do my bacteria.
For instance, we humans have an enzyme called an amylase that helps us digest complex starches, such as bread, into small chunks of sugar that we can then use for energy.
Now, my bacteria have a special enzyme called a lipase that binds to big, tough, durable PET plastic and helps break it into small chunks of sugar that my bacteria can then use for energy.
Insulin pumps improve the lives of many of the 415 million people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking and blood testing.
They send it out for amateur rocketeers, and it said in there do not ever heat a mixture of potassium perchlorate and sugar.
You know, I started off with little tiny amounts of potassium nitrate and sugar, which was readily available, and I mixed it in different proportions, and I tried to light it on fire.
This pattern is the defining feature of a crystal, and isn’t restricted to minerals— sand, ice, sugar, chocolate, ceramics, metals, DNA, and even some liquids have crystalline structures.
So a baker, and a good baker, knows how to pull or draw forth the inherent sugar trapped in the starch.
Yeast is eating sugar and turning it into carbon dioxide and alcohol.
We can understand, for example, why we create plaque in our arteries, what creates the starchiness inside of a grain, why does yeast metabolize sugar and produce carbon dioxide.
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