PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN THE CELLULAR FACTORY NARRATOR: If you could step inside one of your cells, you’d see something that looks a lot like a factory building thousands of different molecular machines. It would have tiny assembly lines starting in the cell’s nucleus and stretching out to structures called ribosomes. These assembly lines start with DNA and build RNAs and Proteins––in a very real sense, you. DNA has all the blueprints for everything the cell will ever need to build. Read More...
Explore More A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death outside a Washington, DC-area McDonald’s in an apparent dispute about sweet and sour sauce over the weekend. Naima Liggon, of Waldorf, Maryland, was allegedly killed by another 16-year-old girl outside the fast food chain in a popular nightlife section of the city around 2 a.m., the Metropolitan Police said. The deadly knife attack stemmed from an argument over the nugget dipping sauce between the teens and a third girl, Detective Brendan Jasper testified in court Monday, according to the Washington Post. Read More...
When President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for a second summit, some speculated in advance that an official end to the Korean War might have been one outcome. (It wasn’t.) For many Americans, some who weren’t even alive during U.S. involvement in the conflict, the Korean War seemed to end on Feb. 28, 1983, the day when 121.6 million viewers watched the final episode of the TV show “M*A*S*H,” making it the most watched television broadcast in American history. Read More...