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What Is a Complete Protein—and Does Your Body Actually Know the Difference?
When you first hear the term “complete protein,” you may just think it’s one of those marketing buzzwords used to make ...
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Nucleic Acids to Amino Acids: DNA Specifies Protein
Hidden within the genetic code lies the "triplet code," a series of three nucleotides that determine a single amino acid. How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the ...
Scientists May Have Found Traces of an Extinct Genetic Code That Came Before DNA
Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...
Gut microbiota acts like an auxiliary liver, study finds
That work produced a surprising result: By consuming a specific class of amino acids, gut microbes can alter their hosts' ...
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Ribosomes, Transcription, and Translation
mRNA is the most variable class of RNA, and there are literally ... steps of protein synthesis — the stitching together of amino acids to make a protein molecule. In fact, rRNA is sometimes ...
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NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid ...
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Protein structure and variety
The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different proteins have different three-dimensional shapes. The three-dimensional shape of a ...
Enzymes are the engines of life − machine learning tools could help scientists design new ones to tackle disease and climate change
Enzymes significantly speed up the chemical reactions that keep you alive. Researchers are using AI to create new ones to tackle modern challenges.