All life (as we know it) requires proteins and all proteins are made of amino acids. While there are many types of amino acids in nature, only 20 of them in different combinations make up all the ...

Using just 20 amino acid letters, ribosomes spell out all the proteins needed to keep cells ticking. But Jason Chin, head of Cambridge’s Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, has long ...

Dietitian Dr Carrie Ruxton said: "Eggs carry an abundance of essential nutrients in a small package, including the hangover-busting cysteine, which is an essential amino acid that reduces nausea ...

All proteins begin with a chain of up to 20 kinds of amino acids, strung together in a sequence encoded in DNA. Each chain folds into a unique structure, and those shapes determine how proteins ...

Whether you’re an executive accountant, work in a factory, or maybe a policeman, you share something with many other people of your generation – the experience of watching cartoons as kids.