GTC Biotherapeutics (fka GTCB)

[Lewis R Goudy]

What the wiki helped me understand is that the presentation
of the molecule to its environment is dynamic. It
wriggles incessantly so that the relevant moiety appears
and disappears depending on the instantaneous conformation.
Your graphics are excellent aids to understanding but it's
very hard to depict this dynamism in a necessarily static
image.

All I am saying is that giving something a name can
beguile us--the name remains constant but that doesn't mean
the thing named does. Antithrombin is a "substance", but we
have to take that with a grain of salt: it's not a statue like sugar
or salt but a dancer.

I'm sure the science guys are laughing but this "now you see
it/now you don't" aspect gave me a lot of trouble. It's one
thing to understand that a vial of stuff is a mixture of
different similar entities, but that a single molecule
has like nature--that its proclivities and behavior are also
a blend--that's a bit trickier.