A new study has unveiled the intricate genetic mechanisms that regulate theanine accumulation in tea plants—a key determinant ...

Theanine, a unique non-proteinogenic amino acid, is a signature component of tea, shaping its umami taste and influencing its health benefits. The accumulation of theanine in tea leaves is a ...

These and other discoveries have left scientists wondering if any off-world amino acids might have once helped life evolve ...

Different classes of dioxygenases operate on protein substrates, to oxidize specific amino acid residues and thus alter the conformation or confer new properties to the polypeptide chain. About ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Enzymes significantly speed up the chemical reactions that keep you alive. Researchers are using AI to create new ones to tackle modern challenges.

Changes to the intermediate filament (IF) protein, vimentin, were found to promote tumor growth by increasing cancer stemness in an oestrogen independent manner. Targeting vimentin and/or the long ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing ...