Essays on Disulfide

(Author’s affiliation) Diabetes is a polygenic disease characterized by significantly higher levels of glucose in the blood. In this disorder, metabolic disorders lead to persistent thirst (polydipsia) and excessive level of urination (polyuria). Diabetes is caused by insulin-related disturbances in the body. In healthy human beings, pancreatic β cells have insulin that is found as a hexamer having three insulin dimers attached together by two central zinc ions. The insulin monomer has a 21-residue A chain as well as a 30-residue B chain. These chains are cross-linked by two disulfide bridges, i.e. CysA20-CysB19 and CysA7-CysB7. There is also a ...

Introduction

Occupational health and safety are associated with the safety, health, and welfare of employees who are engaged in work. It plays an important role in managing the company’s operations. The report addresses workplace hazards and provides information about the accidents and injuries occurred in the engineering industry. One of the main aims of the report is to indicate ways of mitigating the risk of loss. The purpose of this technical report is to demonstrate that the author has engineering knowledge, professional competence, and technical ability to carry out the essential research in detail about the health and safety ...

Corse Lecturer

Engineering is one of the fields born from the advancements in technology. Technology changes with changing times and new discoveries being made. These discoveries result from a combination of knowledge on the subject and creative ideas. Discoveries lead to breakthroughs in various fields such as Engineering. These breakthroughs result in the creation of new technologies and the betterment of already available technologies which all help to make our lives easier. In this paper, I will be discussing some of the most recent breakthroughs in the field of Engineering. Vikas Berry and his team of researchers made a new discovery ...