The Music Proteins Make

[gardener]

Some really curious things turn out to be genetically determined/. One is the ability to roll your tongue. My wife and my sons can, but I cannot. Another is the relative length of the second and the big toe: my second toe is longer. Then there's the ability to taste the chemical compound PTC. It depends on inheriting a particular protein called TAS2R38.

Here’s an explanation...

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/taster.htm

But the neat deal is that proteins make music. Here, from the site above, is the way this protein sounds.

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/TasterV2.mp3

Here’s more.

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/foxp2.htm

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/FoxVox.mp3

And it all sounds much like Philip Glass.

[Phaedrus49er]

That's pretty cool. Much better than what I expected: a misplaced thread about protein farts

[mikex1337]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus49er

That's pretty cool. Much better than what I expected: a misplaced thread about protein farts

LOL. This is greatly amusing, but I am not seeing the relevance to health. Thanks for sharing.