0 a B vitamin (= one of a group of natural substances necessary for good health) found in foods such as eggs, liver (= an animal organ), and yeast (= a fungus that makes bread rise). It helps the body use fats and carbohydrates and is important for healthy hair, nails, and skin:
Biotin is involved in the basic metabolism of all organisms.
This enzyme deficiency is found in about 1 in 60,000 newborns and can be treated with daily doses of biotin.
Other important nutrients include vitamins D, C, B6, K and biotin (found in liver, wholegrains, eggs, fish and nuts).
Gelatine and biotin help promote healthy nail growth by acting at the base of the nail where nail growth begins.
Biotin may even stimulate new hair growth if the hair loss can be traced to a biotin deficiency.
To make such particles, solutions containing streptavidin coated polystyrene particles and biotin coated gold nanoparticles (1-5 nm diameter) are mixed.
The different, labeled amino acids in the figure all contribute to the total biotin binding energy.
This is denatured and hybridized with a biotin-labelled oligonucleotide 'capture probe' designed to anneal to a specific internal sequence of the fragment in question.
