For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built for heavy ...

Photoactivated ketones show strong potential as hydrogen atom transfer photocatalysts, enabling the activation of carboxylic ...

The Drosophila microbiome regulates the cycling of gut metabolites in a circadian clock and diet-dependent manner.

Absence of cysteine in mice coaxed fat-storing cells to burn energy, causing weight loss and offering potential therapeutic ...

Carboxylic acids are ubiquitous in bioactive organic molecules and readily available chemical building blocks. Carboxylic ...

A research team led by Prof. Pan Feng from the School of Advanced Materials, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has ...

New research reveals that L-aspartic acid, a common amino acid found in blood plasma, may play a critical role in predicting ...

There is strong evidence that there is "no safe amount" of processed meat to eat, nutrition experts say in response to a new ...

Discover how beta-alanine boosts muscular endurance by buffering lactic acid buildup, delaying fatigue, and enhancing ...

Unnatural amino acids have been incorporated and used in several protein systems to incisively probe cation–pi interactions, radical transfer reactions, general acid–base catalysis, hydrogen bonds, ...

Hybrid Peptide Design. Hydrogen Bonded Conformations in Peptides Containing the Stereochemically Constrained γ-Amino Acid Residue, Gabapentin Prema G. Vasudev , Kuppanna Ananda , Sunanda Chatterjee , ...