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Plant-Based Proteins – From Basic Sources to Complete Amino Options, Dietitians Advise

The Science Behind Complete Plant Proteins Research shows that while most plant proteins contain all essential amino acids, ...
Ars Technica

Researchers now updating and expanding evolution’s list of 20 amino acids

Serine? So last century. Valine? Over it. Glycine? You’ve got to be kidding me. Those chemicals are part of the 20 amino acids that are typically incorporated into proteins. That means they have a ...
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Amino acids as catalysts in the emergence of RNA

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the laboratory of LMU Professor Dieter Braun has uncovered an unexpected form of ...
Science Daily

Simple fats, amino acids to explain how life began

A research group has explored how the chemical molecules that could have given rise to life were assembled. Life is a process that originated 3.5 billion years ago. It emerged when the basic ...
Science Daily

Scientists recreate life’s first step: Linking amino acids to RNA

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...
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Amino acids are created in laboratory

In 1929 British biochemist John Haldane (1892-1964) put forth the theory that the early atmosphere of Earth contained no free oxygen. Haldane and Soviet biochemist Aleksander Oparin (1894-1980) had ...