SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 36: Proteins
What do proteins do? Heck, an easier question to answer would be 'what don't they do?" No, seriously... I think they do, like, everything.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Protein game
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/victory-for-crowdsourced-biomolecule2/
Protein music
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626125052.htm
Whey fabric
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/ded-ssa012317.php
[Fact Off]
Prions in wine yeast
https://phys.org/news/2014-08-prions-trigger-stuck-wine-fermentations.html#:~:text=Working%20through%20a%20prion%E2%80%94an,without%20altering%20the%20yeast's%20DNA.
Spider silk in vaccines
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612185155.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/udg-ank061218.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961218302473?via%3Dihub
http://news.mit.edu/2019/spider-silk-humidity-robotic-muscle-0301
[Ask the Science Couch]
Complete proteins
https://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/complete-and-incomplete-proteins-grains-and-vegetables
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002467.htm
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002222.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cfgr-utr031119.php
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/134/6/1558S/4688841
[Butt One More Thing]
Sonic hedgehog anorectal malformation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1850556/