Scientists are making a case for adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged. For a while, there’s been a consensus about the order in which the building-bloc ...

There are 20 amino acids that make up proteins and all have the same basic structure, differing only in the R-group or side chain they have. Amino acids are in an equilibrium between two acids with ...

Researchers at Texas Tech University reviewed how red meat proteins and amino acids affect human health, weighing both ...

The team engineered special "pockets" within a protein cage structure called ferritin, surrounding these pockets with carefully arranged clusters of aromatic amino acids. When specific fluorescent ...