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New comment by jeejay1 in "The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds"

jeejay1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:39:10 +0000

Do you have an example of such sequences in mind? Because I can’t recall any example.

New comment by jeejay1 in "The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds"

jeejay1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:29:25 +0000

What plagiarism even means in context of proteins? That one protein steals a fold of another protein without giving proper credit to it?

New comment by jeejay1 in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

jeejay1 — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:31:47 +0000

You are referencing to another thing. Desolvation and dehydration are not the same thing. Please google the difference between them. The title describes desolvation

New comment by jeejay1 in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

jeejay1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:53:25 +0000

You are correct, title is wrong. Blame this communicator. It feels that the person that wrote the text lacks understanding of chemistry or oversimplified too much. More appropriate term for removal of water around an ion is “desolvation”.