Myoglobin
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, a line every nanometer. An inch-thick steak is about five million times thicker.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Myoglobin. Often mistaken for blood.
- Height
- 5 nm. This mugshot is a sperm whale’s; a cow’s is 81% the same.
- Weight
- 29 zeptograms, with its heme.
- Build
- Eight helices, folded around a flat heme.
- Marks
- An iron atom in a deep pocket, holding one oxygen.
- Habits
- Stores oxygen in muscle, for when it’s hard at work.
- Associates
- Whales and dolphins, who carry about 30 times more.
- First seen
- The first protein ever seen in 3D. Also a whale’s.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked STEAK in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz steak, give or take.
Steaks vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Myoglobin, No. 25. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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