The beauty conglomerate has joined with biotechnology and pharmaceutical company Serpin Pharma for ingredient research.

"L-serine, this particular amino acid that we used, [...] we can build it in our bodies, ourselves," researcher Max Riekeles, who is helping to develop the alien-hunting device, told Mashable.

Abide Therapeutics is mining one such enzyme superfamily, the serine hydrolases (SHs). Comprising over 200 members, the SH enzyme family has considerable untapped potential and has already yielded ...

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