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 ...

Scientists have now learned more about how specific nutrients play a role in brain development. Reporting in Cell, researchers analyzed nutrient metabolism as the brain developed in a mouse model and ...

Reference: Knaus LS, Basilico B, Malzl D, et al. Large neutral amino acid levels tune perinatal neuronal excitability and survival. Cell. 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.037 This article has been ...

The authors hypothesized that overexpressing Slc7a5 would increase fetal growth, showing a direct mechanistic link between the transport of amino acids and these common fetal conditions. Indeed ...

Amino acids are abundant in asteroids, suggesting the conditions for alien lifeforms to spawn exist in other corners of the universe. “The universe seems to love amino acids,” Fried said.

Some of the 20 amino acids are also sold separately, like l-cartitine. The verdict: If you’re getting enough protein, there’s really no need to take an amino acid supplement.

The current study sought to investigate SLC38A5 (SN2/SNAT5), a sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter, for its connection to PDAC. SLC38A5 transports glutamine, asparagine, methionine ...

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 ...

Amino acids, which are a key ingredient of life, could have originally been made in interstellar molecular clouds like that from which the solar system formed, before winding up in asteroids that ...