Plants produce all amino acids essential for human life. This commonly occurs in specialised cell organelles, so-called plastids. A research team headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) ...

Although the myriad proteins found in all life are largely built from a set of 20 amino acids, many other amino acids exist in nature, and it remains a curiosity as to why some were ultimately ...

These chains come in a wide range of lengths. In humans a typical protein is about 400 amino acids long; some are a lot longer. Molecules of RNA, one of the two nucleic acids, can reach up to 100,000 ...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) report in an upcoming article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society their synthesis of a form of the bacterium Escherichia coli with a ...

Figure 1: Changes in clinical, MRI and immunological parameters during therapy with CGP77116. None of the MRI parameters changed substantially. Compared with baseline (cumulative 48 patient-months), ...

Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that helps your body produce melatonin and serotonin. However, it's not why you feel tired after a large meal.

Texas Children’s has for the first time used a new enzyme replacement therapy called Kebilidi as a cure to AADC, a rare neurological disorder.