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Histidine

21st Nov 202021st Nov 2020 Leave a comment

“In 1874 Miescher observed that a large proportion of the dry weight of the sperm of the Rhine salmon consisted of a ‘nuclein’” …a rather odd sentence that starts the section on histidine in Vickery and Schmidt’s 1931 history of the discovery of the amino acids.1 It really highlights just how odd chemistry was as… Continue reading Histidine

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