MIT scientists have found that an amino acid called cysteine can help the gut heal itself. In mouse studies, a cysteine-rich diet activated immune cells that release a molecule speeding up tissue ...

1 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan 2 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, JUST, Irbid, ...

Amino acids are absolutely essential to our health—and for life itself. They are the so-called “building blocks” of proteins. They play a key role in the growth, repair, and maintenance of almost ...

Rolls of brightly colored plastic. After it is used and discarded, polylactic acid could be used as a feedstock for making the amino acid alanine. Credit: Shutterstock One of the simpler amino acids, ...

They turned to the amino acid glutamine, because it is the most abundant amino acid in the blood. Glutamine is naturally synthesized in the body and can also be consumed from all animal protein ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

The retina places a large energy demand on the body, in part due to the activity of photoreceptors. These specialized cells are responsible for receiving light and transmitting visual information to ...

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The review introduces the molecular subtypes of breast cancer and outlines how altered amino acid metabolism supports tumor growth. It explores key amino acid pathways—including glutamine, serine, ...

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According to the World Health Organization, adult obesity has more than doubled since the 1990s, while adolescent obesity has quadrupled. Despite various diet strategies like low-carb and low-fat ...

We have all heard of messenger RNA (mRNA) by now, but what about transfer RNA (tRNA)? Well, there is a growing awareness that this emerging technology is capable of a myriad of biological functions ...