Red Cross Thank You
Tue, 02/09/2010 - 21:24 — frank
Thank you for supporting the Canadian Red Cross in our Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Your support has allowed us to send urgently need aid, support and most importantly hope to Haiti. Your generosity has allowed the Red Cross to:
- Send over 2,600 metric tonnes of relief items to Haiti
- Distribute 1 million litres of water to 200,000 people each day.
- Provide medical care to over 9,600 people so far, including urgently needed psychosocial support.
- Provide relief items such as blankets, kitchen tools, tarps, jerry cans and hygiene items to over 122,000 people.
As proteins are dynamic in nature, they are constantly changing their conformations. Certain conformations enhance the rate of a reaction more than others which we describe as being more enzymatically active. Here’s the important part. This means that just the smallest change in structure or orientation of any part of this protein has dramatic effects on its enzymatic activity and, consequently, our health.