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When we breathe, or respire, oxygen from the air is taken up by blood in our lungs and soon delivered to each of the cells in our body through our circulatory system. Among other uses, our cells use oxygen as the final electron acceptor in a process called aerobic respiration -- a process that converts the energy in food and nutrients into a form of energy that the cell can readily use (molecules of ATP, adenosine triphosphate). The cells of large organisms like humans use aerobic respiration because other forms of energy production are less efficient, and oxygen is plentiful. (THINK: Do fish use aerobic respiration?) But, although oxygen is transported in our blood to reach each of the cells in our body, oxygen does not dissolve well in blood. So how is oxygen transported in the blood?. (more...)

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• January, 2018: 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Group Photo of Participants.
• September, 2017: A workshop based on Proteopedia was held at the New Horizons in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Education Conference, jointly organised by FEBS and IUBMB and hosted at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Date and details to be announced.
• June, 2016: Animate any Proteopedia scene in Powerpoint.
• June, 2016: Proteopedia uses the Biological Assemblies from PDBe as the default scenes for all PDB entry pages. Thus, based on the curation by EBI (host for PDBe) the most biologically significant structure is shown.
• June, 2015: Award Ceremony for the the Proteopedia Award at the ICSG2015 - Deep Sequencing Meets Structural Biology, awarded on 10-Jun-2015 at the Weizmann Institute of Science
• December, 2014, Talking about Proteopedia on 12/04/14-12/06/14, a live online talk organised by DivCHED CCCE: Committee on Computers in Chemical Education
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