So this past Wednesday, Lydia, Christina, and I managed to make our way to NIH to attend a seminar. It was titled Calcium-driven signalling in Red Blood Cells in Health and Disease. It was a fairly small seminar with about 10-15 people in attendance. Regardless, it was still very good.
It was completely awesome to see all of the information learned in Cell Biology, Animal Physiology, Genetics, Histology, and Biochemistry combined in this cool research! The most interesting park of the presentation was the researchers discovered that calcium actually binds to hemoglobin to allow the release of oxygen. The question is where calcium binds to hemoglobin.
I can't wait to attend another seminar at NIH! It feels so great to understand about 95% of what presenters are discussing in seminars. WAU Biology and Chemistry Department has really prepared us well. :D
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