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Emeritus Professor, Redox Biology, Editor in Chief of Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 🧪Mystery writer, tennis player, football fan and world traveler. Disagree? Fine. Disagreeable? Blocked.
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Heisenberg and Schrödinger get pulled over for speeding. The officer asks, "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg replies, "No, but we know exactly where we are!" The confused officer says, "You were going 200 km an hour!" Heisenberg throws cries, "Great! Now we're lost!" More-

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What show do cesium and iodine love to watch together? CsI 🧪

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Why was the marine biologist so happy? Because he found his porpoise. 🧪

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Just published 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Helium walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve noble gasses here." Helium doesn't react. 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Why do chemists like nitrates so much? They're cheaper than day rates! 🧪 I expect this will stimulate other clever answers.

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

How many tickles does it take to make a squid laugh? Ten tickles! 🧪

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What did the chemist say when someone threw sodium and chloride at him? That's a salt! 🧪

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Free radicals #17: #16 was esoteric. Keap1 is a protein that senses electrophiles (electron lovers). Polyphenols can be oxidized to become electrophiles. When electrophiles bind to Keap1, another protein, Nrf2, increases and binds to DNA promoting antioxidant enzyme production. 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Why do ants never get sick? Because they have little anty bodies. 🧪

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

What element can be pressured into becoming a girl's best friend? Carbon. 🧪

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Free radicals #16: Polyphenols do not effectively neutralize free radicals or oxidants. When metabolized to an electrophilic form, they can form adducts to Keap1 and thereby induce Nrf2 regulated antioxidant enzymes. 🧪

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains have numerous markers for ferroptosis, including increased lipid peroxidation, reduced antioxidant levels, and increased iron storage. 🧪 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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What do you call a clown in jail? A silicon! 🧪

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Today’s refugee immigrant chemist is Dr Moses Gomberg, who fled Czarist Russia to Chicago. He discovered free radicals (molecules with unpaired electrons) in 1900. Here is an ACS booklet about him.🧪 www.acs.org/content/dam/...

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The proton is not speaking to the neutron, he's mad atom. 🧪

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