Tea quality depends on a delicate balance between amino acids and secondary metabolites, yet how these compounds are coordinated at the molecular level has remained unclear.

Impact-shock synthesis of organic molecules may have been one of the sources of organic carbon in our Solar System 4.5–3.8 billion years ago 1,2,3,4, just before life emerged (for example, refs 5, 6, ...

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new and promising drug compound for the treatment of cancer that inhibits natural amino acids from entering cancer cells. Since amino ...

AN investigation of the soluble nucleotides in food yeast (Torulopsis utilis) has shown that a complex metabolic pool of these compounds is maintained in growing cells. Marked changes in the size and ...

Toyohashi University of Technology researchers led by Associate Professor Shibatomi developed new catalytic reaction to produce chlorine-containing organic molecules in isomerically pure (left- or ...

Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in your body. It is present in methionine and cysteine, which are two of the amino acids you use to make proteins. Both of these amino acids are present in ...

Monica Grady is a co-investigator on the Ptolemy team, and wife of Professor Ian Wright, the Principal Investigator, but is not an author on the Science paper discussed in the article, and neither was ...