What Is a Complete Protein—And Does Your Body Actually Know the Difference?
When you first hear the term “complete protein,” you may just think it’s one of those marketing buzzwords used to make ...
NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases
Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...
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Most disease-causing mutations that swap amino acids do so by making proteins less stable
Missense mutations are genetic alterations arising from the substitution of a single base pair (bp) in an amino acid (aa) sequence with a different base pair, resulting in the translation of a ...
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How a simple amino acid could shape immune response
A study conducted by researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology has uncovered a pivotal role of asparagine metabolism in regulating B cell homeostasis and immune response. Germinal ...