Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN researchers ...

Food poisoning is a common, yet unpleasant, illness caused by eating contaminated items. It is sometimes caused by ...

Amino acids are essential for nearly every process in the human body. Often referred to as "the building blocks of life," ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and ...

BCAA supplements that contain concentrated amounts of amino acids are popular with gym goers. We take a look at how exactly ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that ...

Whichever of these views is held, it is a commonplace that free amino-acids are widespread in plants and they are known to exist dissolved in the cell sap, to which they contribute part of the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved PTC Therapeutics' Kebilidi (eladocagene exuparvovec-tneq) for the ...

Combining several existing datasets, scientists zeroed in on thousands of potential new genes that make roughly 3,000 ...