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amino acid - A compound containing both amino (-NH₂) and carboxyl (-COOH) groups. In particular, any of 20 basic building blocks of proteins having the formula NH₂-CR-COOH, where R is different for each specific amino acid. [FAO]

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Scientists find key differences between bird flu and human flu viruses  -  21 Aug 2007
DailyIndia.com,The researchers used a mathematical technique, and identified specific amino acid building blocks that were statistically more likely to appear in avian

UC Davis: Gene Mutation Turned WNV into Killer Disease among Crows  -  21 Aug 2007
TheHorse.com,Analysis of genetic patterns indicated a disproportionate rate of change at a particular amino acid within one of the viral genes.

Wet nanotechnology - living transistors with nanofluidic diodes  -  21 Aug 2007
Nanowerk LLC,Because one or more amino acid residues at any preferred position can be substituted by others, the precision and resolution of the charge distribution

Male Fertility Supplement Increases Sperm Quality & Motility in ...  -  21 Aug 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),Research on the amino acid, l-carnitine, yields similarly impressive findings: L-carnitine supports "sperm metabolism", or the ability for sperm to break

Symposium explores health effects of acrylamide, ways to reduce it ...  -  21 Aug 2007
EurekAlert (press release),Fat found to be significant source of acrylamide in food — Studies have shown that carbohydrates and amino acids, particularly the non-essential amino acid

AnaSpec Introduces CEF Control Peptide Pool  -  21 Aug 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Certificate of Analysis includes data from mass spectrometry, HPLC and amino acid analysis.HLA Allele Virus Peptence Solubility.

Collagen + Algae + Vitamin E = “COLVITA�?  -  21 Aug 2007
PR UrgentOur human collagen is a specific amino acid store and similar to other vertebrates, it decides whether the organism maintains it or lacks it.

Getting a Better Handle on Antidepressant Action  -  21 Aug 2007
HealthNewsDigest.com,LeuT's job is to transport the amino acid leucine across the bacterial membrane. Singh explored how the TCA clomipramine, which she had found to be a potent

Special K, the pharmaceutical Holy Grail  -  21 Aug 2007
Daily Mail,It produces an amino acid called Gla which acts as a glue to help keep the calcium in the bone. A study published in Osteoporosis International earlier this

Amino Vital(R) Launches Web Site Designed for Golfers  -  Aug 20, 2007
American Digital Networks (press release),NEW YORK-(Business Wire)-August 20, 2007 - Amino Vital(R), the leading amino acid sports performance product, announces today the launch of a new Web site

Amino Vital ® Launches Web Site Designed for Golfers  -  Aug 20, 2007
Business Wire (press release),The world leader in amino science, Ajinomoto has successfully developed safe and effective amino acid applications for pharmaceutical and food products for

AnaSpec Introduces New 2007-2009 Combinatorial Chemistry Catalog  -  Aug 18, 2007
PR.com (press release),Amino Acid Cartridges – used in ABI and Protein Technologies synthesizers. The technical section contains informative resources relevant to peptide

Alien Pizza, Anyone?  -  Aug 17, 2007
Science NewsThat difference could mean, for example, that breaking up a left-handed amino acid might take slightly more energy than breaking up its mirror-image

Want Citrulline? Try Watermelon  -  Aug 14, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Science Daily — Here's another reason to enjoy watermelon before summer ends: This delicious fruit is unusually high in an amino acid known as citrulline.

Albany Democrat-Herald  -  Aug 19, 2007
Albany Democrat Herald,Ingredients vary by product, but energy drinks may include: ephedrine, which is a stimulant that works on the central nervous system; taurine, an amino acid

Levin, Stabenow seek EPA’s assurance on lake dumping plan  -  Aug 1, 2007
Detroit Free Press,Ammonia is created through normal amino acid metabolism and is toxic in high concentrations.[24] The liver converts ammonia to urea through a series of

Glutamine unlikely to boost athletic performance  -  Aug 2, 2007
Reuters.uk,NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is little evidence that supplements containing the amino acid glutamine can enhance athletes' performance, according to a

Glycine Supplement Helps Prevent Degenerative Diseases Such As ...  -  Aug 10, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Glycine is a non-essential amino acid used by an organism to synthesise proteins and is present in foods such as fish, meat or dairy products.

Ajinomoto Aminoscience LLC Celebrates 25th Anniversary  -  Aug 6, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Ajinomoto is the only US amino acid facility that manufactures, packages, and inventories cGMP and Drug Master File (DMF) pharmaceutical grade amino acids,

You are What You Eat  -  Aug 18, 2007
Manila Bulletin,Seaweeds are high in protein and have a good amino acid profile, they contain little fat and some vitamins and minerals. More than these, eating sea greens

Lysinuric protein intolerance: one gene, many problems  -  Aug 3, 2007
AJP - Cell Physiology (subscription)Although aminoacidurias are diagnosed by urine amino acid analysis, most of the disorders affect both intestinal and renal transport.

Supplement of Glycine Helps Prevent Osteoporosis  -  Aug 6, 2007
MedIndia,A research conducted at the Cellular Metabolism Institute in Tenerife, suggest that lack of amino acid in the body is responsible for all kinds of

Nigeria: Bleaching  -  Aug 13, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Kojic Acid, Licorice Extract, Arbutin (Bearberry), Burner Root Extract, Mulberry, Scutelleria Extract and Melanostat (an amino acid based ingredient).

Linus Pauling Lecture -- Unified Theory of Cardiovascular Disease ...  -  Aug 18, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),In 1989, Pauling began his recommendations for large amounts of the amino acid lysine along with vitamin C for cardiovascular disease.

UI Researcher Leads Effort to Map Protein Functions  -  Jul 23, 2007
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette,Work in sequencing the human and other genomes has left scientists with a huge collection of amino acid sequences for something like 4.5 million proteins,

Pop-up proteins  -  Jul 30, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk,Likewise, a single mutation in the amino acid sequence can mean that a protein isn't folded properly, or isn't folded at body temperature - an amazing 80%

EUFIC: All about nuts  -  Aug 17, 2007
NEWSFOOD.com Primo piano,Nuts are particularly rich in arginine, an amino acid from protein. Arginine is needed to produce nitric oxide, which in turn helps arteries and other blood

A genetic string band  -  Aug 3, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,But instead of employing a simple amino acid to musical note transposition, the molecular musicologists allowed the amino acids to encode three-note chords.

Raw food may fall short in some nutrients  -  Aug 19, 2007
Chicago Tribune,...elevated blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that requires vitamin B-12 for processing and that, when elevated, increases heart disease risk.

Herbs may be helpful for Type 2 diabetes  -  Aug 19, 2007
Seattle Times,In addition, fenugreek seeds have a special amino acid known as 4-hydroxyisoleucine. This compound may directly stimulate insulin release from the pancreas,

Pulling Apart Proteins  -  Jul 26, 2007
Bioscience Technology,Proteins are created in linear chains, like strands of pearls, with each amino acid representing a bead on the strand. However, knowing the order of the

Lysine requirement of healthy school-age children determined by ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription),...an amino acid mixture to give a final calculated protein intake of 1.5 g · kg –1 · d –1 and an energy intake of 1.7 x resting energy expenditure (REE).

Genetic phonetics could be the trick to sounding out DNA’s meaning  -  Aug 20, 2007
TechJournal South,In many respects, researchers think of an organism’s genome as ticker-tape listings of four letters — representing four amino acid bases — repeated in

Walnuts: Why You Need Them  -  Aug 15, 2007
Men's FitnessWalnuts supply the body with a hefty shot of the amino acid L-ARGININE. It’s converted to nitric oxide, a compound that causes blood vessels to dilate,

Instant insight: Forces of attraction  -  Aug 20, 2007
Chemistry World,The bonding in planar hydrogen-bonded DNA base pairs and amino acid pairs is well understood, but the role of the vertical stacking interactions,

SCIENTIST TO WATCH  -  Aug 14, 2007
Scientist,Voigt also designed an algorithm that would manipulate amino acid sequence without altering a protein's structure, by calculating the number of amino acid

OrthoLogic to Host Conference Call Discussing Second Quarter 2007 ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
CNNMoney.comChrysalin, the Company's novel synthetic 23-amino acid peptide, is being studied in several indications including fracture repair, diabetic foot ulcer

American Chemical Society (ACS) 234th Annual Meeting & Exposition  -  Aug 20, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Galectins share similar amino acid sequences and are a family of lectins that have affinity for beta glycosides. Galectins bind to a wide array of

Biochemists reveal secret of vitamin D degradation  -  Jul 25, 2007
Scenta.co.uk,The team discovered, however, that changing a single amino acid in this enzyme determines which pathway it will take. Vitamin D based drugs are commonly

Aging does not impair the anabolic response to a protein-rich meal ...  -  Aug 7, 2007
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription),Objective: We aimed to characterize changes in plasma amino acid concentrations and to quantify muscle protein synthesis in healthy young (41 ± 8 y old;

New study gives important clue to the mechanism of action of ...  -  Jul 23, 2007
AnaesthesiaUK,These researchers have now identified an amino acid in the potassium channel, mutation of which blocks anaesthetic activation.

Health benefits of sprouts  -  Aug 18, 2007
Times of India,Studies on canavanine, an amino acid analog in alfalfa, has demonstrated benefit for pancreatic, colon and leukemia cancers. Plant estrogens are also

Enzyme discovery sheds light on vitamin D  -  Aug 13, 2007
Laboratory Products News,The discovery reveals that changing a single amino acid in the hydroxylase enzyme will cause it to take a completely different pathway.

Proteins planted in skimmed milk  -  Aug 20, 2007
separationsNOW.com (subscription),The peptide masses or amino acid sequences are matched against databases to identify the proteins present. Preliminary studies on an SMP spiked with 5% of

Researchers Find Key To Messenger RNA Control  -  Jul 27, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,Like a biological photocopy machine, RNA transcribes the amino acid assembly instructions from the DNA and transports them to the appropriate place in the

It's only natural  -  Jul 23, 2007
Scotsman,Harnessing the power of the amino acid 5-HTP, which some think increases the body's production of feel-good chemical serotonin as well as helping to restore

Some 'Enhanced' Products Might Not Enhance Health  -  Aug 13, 2007
U.S. News & World Report,Touted as a stimulant and power enhancer, this popular drink supplement is a natural amino acid present in almost every protein-containing food.

Hair coloring goes organic at salon  -  Aug 17, 2007
Arizona Republic,..."On your head, it actually eats into your hair and destroys an amino acid that makes melanin for the natural color of your hair. They're doing studies on

Tumors use enzyme to recruit regulatory T-cells and suppress ...  -  Aug 19, 2007
News-Medical.net,They showed then that one way IDO suppresses the immune response is by degrading tryptophan, a natural amino acid important to T cells.

DIETITIAN'S DESK - Corn is high in carbs  -  Aug 7, 2007
Jamaica Gleaner,Corn can make a complete meal in combination with a legume to provide increased amounts of the amino acid, lysine, for which it contains limited amounts.

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