{"id":208,"date":"2008-09-26T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/26\/on_froot_loops_and_zinc_fingers\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:09:20","slug":"on_froot_loops_and_zinc_fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/26\/on_froot_loops_and_zinc_fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"On froot loops and zinc fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that I have a professional interest (they make me do it, I try not to) in <a href=\"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/rpgzn.pdf\">zinc fingers<\/a>. So when I was tidying up the Pawns&#8217; breakfast mess last week I was intrigued by the box of Froot Loops (the breakfast cereal that is so sweet it gives me palpitations just smelling it):<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/2889148911\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/2889148911_38112051d0_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s take a closer look, just below the teeth:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/2889150745\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3090\/2889150745_dd3d1f72a5_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIsn&#8217;t that just fantastic? It&#8217;s so good, I thought, that I searched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcsb.org\/pdb\/home\/home.do\">PDB<\/a> and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcsb.org\/pdb\/explore.do?structureId=1BC8\">exactly<\/a> what I was looking for:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/2889977966\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3079\/2889977966_15b8d6713e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd it&#8217;s there on a box of breakfast cereal, &#8216;supporting healthy growth&#8217;. Which is doubly fantastic because that DNA sequence is a&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>promoter<\/em>. Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>\nUm.  That doesn&#8217;t quite work. Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that I have a professional interest (they make me do it, I try not to) in zinc fingers. So when I was tidying up the Pawns&#8217; breakfast mess last week I was intrigued by the box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/26\/on_froot_loops_and_zinc_fingers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}