New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully fabricated and characterized a fully functional mirror-image nanopore—a ...

Only recently was it discovered that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, exist in two different forms: L- and D-forms. While all natural proteins consist exclusively of L-amino acids, the ...

Chiral amino acids. L-and D-amino acids are same in molecular weight, bond angle, bond length, but different in characteristics. Only L-amino acids has been regarded to be present in the body until ...

Chiral amino acids. L-and D-amino acids are same in molecular weight, bond angle, bond length, but different in characteristics. Only L-amino acids has been regarded to be present in the body until ...

Some of these supplement names are getting out of hand. Protein powder? Easy to understand. Creatine? A little tougher, but whatever. And now L-carnitine? It sounds like something straight out of high ...