A new AI tool that models how variations in peptides change T cell receptor binding could help design immunotherapies with ...

The next amino acids to be discovered had sources that were, if anything, even more humble. By 1820, cystine had been isolated from urinary stones, glycine from gelatin, and leucine from muscle ...

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. There are 20 different ones your body needs. Your body can make 11 of them. But you need to get the other nine from your diet. Those nine you need ...

Study: Astrocyte reactivity influences amyloid-β effects on tau pathology in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Image Credit: sfam_photo/Shutterstock.com Background Accumulation of Aβ in the ...

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-block amino acids ...

Insights into the formation and evolution of extraterrestrial amino acids from the asteroid Ryugu. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37107-6 ...

Thomas Horvath: Bile acids are challenging to study for three main reasons. First, their chemical diversity is extensive, with known bile acid structures numbering in the thousands and new types ...

There are three unique types of these omega-3 fatty acids. The first is eicosapentaenoic acid, also called EPA. Fish and fish oil supplements contain EPA. It is the omega-3 that plays an essential ...

Among adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery, infusion of amino acids reduced the occurrence of AKI. (Funded by the Italian Ministry of Health; PROTECTION ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03709264.) ...