In living organisms, every protein—a type of biological polymer consisting of hundreds of amino acids—carries out specific ...

The loss of muscle mass and strength poses an increasingly significant challenge for an aging society. Prof. Kristina ...

Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, China ...

The leaching efficiency is improved by a solid-solid reduction mechanism, known as the battery effect, as well as the addition of the amino acid glycine. A new strategy for recycling spent lithium ...

Red Meat Amino Acids for Beginners: A Narrative Review. Image Credit: Natalia Lisovskaya / Shutterstock Red meat is considered to be a potential risk factor for a range of cardiometabolic diseases ...

Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110819, PR China Foshan Graduate School of Innovation, Northeastern University, Foshan, Guangdong 528311, PR ...

developed environmentally friendly substances called micelles—tiny molecular structures made from natural amino acids and coconut oil. These ball-shaped structures have two sides: one that mixes ...

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 ...