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1 Early life and education. 2 Career. ... His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects ... 136472 Makemake: March 31, 2005: list
Makemake was discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team at the Palomar Observatory, led by Michael E. Brown, [8] and was announced to the public on July 29, 2005. The team had planned to delay announcing their discoveries of the bright objects Makemake and Eris until further observations and calculations were complete, but announced them both on July 29 when the discovery of another large object ...
Philip Siekevitz (February 25, 1918 – December 5, 2009) was an American cell biologist who spent most of his career at Rockefeller University.He was involved in early studies of protein synthesis and trafficking, established purification techniques to facilitate study of the cell nucleus, worked with Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner George Palade on cell membrane dynamics, and ...
S/2015 (136472) 1, unofficially nicknamed MK2 by the discovery team, [2] is the only known moon of the trans-Neptunian dwarf planet Makemake. [1] [4] It is estimated to be 175 km (110 mi) in diameter and has a semi-major axis of at least 21,000 km (13,000 mi) from Makemake. [1]
1984: Comet Levy-Rudenko was discovered independently by David H. Levy on 13 November 1984 and the next evening by Michael Rudenko. (It was the first of 23 comets discovered by Levy, who is famous as the 1993 co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the first comet ever observed crashing into a planet, Jupiter.) [120]
The study, published in the journal Nature last month, examined how a protein called interleukin-11 (IL-11) impacts aging. According to the study, the amount of this protein increases as we age ...
Their number and arrangement is called the secondary structure of the protein. Alpha helices are regular spirals stabilized by hydrogen bonds between the backbone CO group of one amino acid residue and the backbone NH group of the i+4 residue. The spiral has about 3.6 amino acids per turn, and the amino acid side chains stick out from the ...
Plant-based protein powders—made from rice, peas or soy—were found to contain triple the amount of lead compared to whey protein powders, which are made from the liquid byproduct of cheese ...