"...The Penn researchers used three amino acids to make a four-helix columned protein structure. They put a smaller structure inside it called a heme, a large flat molecule that is the active part of hemoglobin. Heme has an iron atom in the center of it, which is what oxygen binds to. ..."
protein mimics blood
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22359/

"...The Penn researchers used three amino acids to make a four-helix columned protein structure. They put a smaller structure inside it called a heme, a large flat molecule that is the active part of hemoglobin. Heme has an iron atom in the center of it, which is what oxygen binds to. ..."
"...The Penn researchers used three amino acids to make a four-helix columned protein structure. They put a smaller structure inside it called a heme, a large flat molecule that is the active part of hemoglobin. Heme has an iron atom in the center of it, which is what oxygen binds to. ..."