We hear about the moment Dr Max Perutz discovered the haemoglobin structure. Our expert is Professor Sir Alan Fersht, who is a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular ...

Researchers at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University are the first in the world to uncover the precise structure ...

Haemoglobin allows them to carry oxygen from the lungs to the working muscles. Red blood cells are disc-shaped cells with no nucleus. They are very small but their flattened shape gives a ...

The latter also contains an additional ring structure, derived from β-keto propionic-acid, in place of the propionic acid side chain of the hémin molecule. In chlorophyll, a magnesium atom ...

homologous in position to that in Haemoglobin Hammersmith (β CDI Phe→Ser). The two disease states differ and an explanation is attempted in terms of molecular structure.

Researchers have identified how haptoglobin and CD163 protect the body from oxidative damage from free hemoglobin by ...