The ability of salts to stabilize proteins or intracellularly correlates with the Hofmeister series of ions.

Numerous studies have been conducted on the ability of salts to stabilize proteins using purified proteins demonstrating the fact that the ability of salts to stabilize proteins correlates with the Hofmeister series of ions. Using the well characterized bacterial aqueous cytosolic β-galactosidase and catechol 2,3-dioxygenase enzymes, we demonstrated that salts can stabilize proteins or intracellularly as well and that the ability of salts to stabilize these two proteins intracellularly also correlates with the Hofmeister series of ions. NaSO and NaHPO were very effective at stabilizing both proteins, followed by NaCl, NHCl and (NH)HPO, while NHCHCO, (NH)SO and NaCHCO did not stabilize either of the proteins.

Outstanding memories: the positive and negative effects of nudes on memory.

A picture of a nude isolated in a series of pictures of clothed models was quite memorable, but when compared with a clothed picture, the nude impaired memory for background picture derails as well as pictures immediately following the nude (anterograde amnesia). Recall of details given picture-gist recall, as well as recognition of person details, were equivalent in the clothed and nude conditions. A clothed picture isolated in a series of nudes did not hurt memory for background information, nor did it produce anterograde amnesia.