Protein facts and facts about proteins.
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The jumping power of a flea comes from a pad located above the hind leg that contains stored energy generated by the protein, Resilin. When the pad is pressed upon the energy is released, launching the flea vertically or horizontally up to 13 inches.
Hibernating black bears can go months without eating, drinking, urinating, or defecating, and their bodies recycle waste into protein.
Fresh pineapple contains bromelain, an enzyme that digests protein, which is why it makes your tongue tingle and keeps gelatin from setting.
A glowing protein from the crystal jelly led to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Humans have about 20,000 protein-coding genes.