After it is used and discarded, polylactic acid could be used as a feedstock for making the amino acid alanine. Credit: Shutterstock One of the simpler amino acids, alanine is widely used across the ...

Protein is an important food group to include in your diet. Your body needs protein to build bones, muscles, cartilage, and skin. It also needs protein to repair cells and tissues, make and regulate ...

The review introduces the molecular subtypes of breast cancer and outlines how altered amino acid metabolism supports tumor growth. It explores key amino acid pathways—including glutamine, serine, ...

Different methods to determine total fat (TF) and fatty acids (FA), including trans fatty acids (TFA), in diverse foodstuffs were evaluated, incorporating gravimetric methods and gas chromatography ...

These days, the supplement aisle is growing by the minute, and that’s especially the case when it comes to sports and athletic performance supps. There’s protein powder, creatine, amino acids—and you ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched into ...

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Edited by William DeGrado, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; received November 26, 2022; accepted April 11, 2023 QTY code is a simple tool for designs of water-soluble ...

A Cape Girardeau business is one of several that is being spun off by a Japanese pharmaceutical group to a Chinese enterprise. On Nov. 22, the Tokyo-based Kyowa Hakko Bio and its parent Kirin Holding ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Polar crystals, which display pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity, can serve as a ...

Abstract: DNA sequence analysis is at the core of bioinformatics approaches in the study of genomes, genes and proteins. Recent studies revealed that codon (triplet nucleotides) is a useful means to ...