thought&design.: Archive

I put the answer as Hsc70 protein because it only flattens out the protein for transportation through the Tom complex into the intermembrane space between the outer and inner layers of the mitochondria. The other complexes are directly on the membrane and actually move the protein to where it’s supposed to go on the membrane. The answer is Tom44 complex. WHY?! because of the stupid 44. It’s Tom40, not Tom44.

So insignificant. Test us on the functions of proteins, Dr. Gross. At least I think it’s more important to know the function than the number of a certain protein.

Oct 28, 2010

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“Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet.
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave:
The history of how you felt.” —Simon Van Booy (via wearebasiclight) (via quote-book)

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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.” —Lemony Snicket (via littlemiss)

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happy birthday, bestest big <3

one card would never be enough to describe the kind of person you are to me. being matched with you on the day of revealing was probably the best thing that has happened to me in aphio and in college. our personalities match completely and you treat me so well that when we go to restaurants together, i’m pretty sure we look like a couple. we joke about that all the time but we don’t care. you’re definitely like family; always cheering me up and encouraging me to do better. always believing in me and always protecting me. i can show my true self to you, something that doesn’t come easy to me to people i call friends. you fill in the gaps that my parents and brother can’t fill, and that is because you’re not that old and you’re not that young. you still have that easy-going personality that i am accustomed to even when you’re 22, and you’re still wise at the same time. and also, because you’re my big and we aren’t attracted to each other in that way, it makes it more comfortable to know that i can dress up when i go out with you because i want to knowing that you wouldn’t make me feel uncomfortable. i’m also really fortunate that you’re single, so you have more time to spend with me.

i appreciate the times you’ve made me laugh when i was slightly depressed or the times i complain to you about certain guys. those times when you tell me that you’ll come down from 626 to drive a drunk little home from a party. those times when you offer to buy groceries for me because i’m too busy to. those times when you take shots for me because i refuse to. those times when i see you yack, knowing that it’s partly because of me that you did. those times when we can just sit there and talk about my life and yours.

when you get a girlfriend, i’m going to tell her that she’s the luckiest girl alive.

Oct 27, 2010