A team of investigators at The Scripps Research Institute and its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology in La Jolla, California has modified a form of the bacterium Escherichia coli to use a 22-amino ...

There are currently 22 amino acids determined as protein building blocks. Moreover, researchers have discovered roughly 250 non-proteinogenic naturally occurring amino acids. Meteorites and comets ...

A team of researchers from Yale and Northwestern published a paper detailing a new method of incorporating synthetic amino acids into proteins. This new technology has far-reaching applications across ...

Excessive protein is the current health fad. Protein is one of the three macronutrients. Fat and carbohydrates are the other two, and some experts would add fiber (a special type of carbohydrate) as a ...

In this multicenter, parallel-group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, we assigned infants with birth weights of less than 1000 g at 8 neonatal intensive care units to receive amino ...