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Proteins: are essential nutrients for the human body. They are one of the building blocks of body tissue and can also serve as a fuel source. As a fuel, proteins provide as much energy density as carbohydrates: 4 kcal per gram; in contrast, lipids provide 9 kcal per gram.
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SEP 22, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
The immune system can be a double-edged sword; we need it to protect us from pathogens and aberrant cells, but if it is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 17, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Amino acids have long been known to improve the stability and solubility of proteins; they might be added to medications ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 15, 2025Genetics & Genomics
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Scientists have now created an encyclopedia of gene function for all known human genes that code for protein. This data ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 24, 2025Microbiology
Worldwide, hepatitis B is thought to be the second deadliest infection; about 5% of the global population are infection ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 19, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
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Muscular dystrophy is a disease caused by a genetic mutation. The muscles of muscular dystrophy patients weaken..Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 17, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
The microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract can have a significant influence on human health and disease, and this ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
The immune system can be a double-edged sword; we need it to protect us from pathogens and aberrant cells, but if it is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 17, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Amino acids have long been known to improve the stability and solubility of proteins; they might be added to medications
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 15, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
The relationship between the gut microbiome and the human body is complex. While the microbes in the human gastrointesti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2025
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists have identified a protein that switches brain aging on and off in mice.
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 25, 2025
Microbiology
Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the rig
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 15, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Proteins are essential to biology, and they have to assume the correct three-dimensional structure in order to work prop
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 25, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
If we want to prevent viral infections or develop drugs that can effectively treat them, those infections have to be inv
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 23, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
When proteins are made in a cell, they start out as strings of amino acids, which have to be folded into the correct, 3D
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
New research has indicated that humans used what bones to create tools as many as 20,000 years ago. These findings have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 01, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
When scientists genetically engineered mice so that they could not generate an amino acid called cysteine, and then fed
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 21, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists learned about a decade ago that when children were given peanuts in the first few months of life, their chanc
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 19, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Pancreatic cancer is deadly; only about 10% of patents live over five years after they are diagnosed. Patients are typic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 06, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Parkinson's disease is often not diagnosed until later stages, when many nerve cells in the brain have already died off,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 16, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
New research has examined longevity rates and diet in various countries, and has shown that in countries where people ea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more abou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Researchers have performed an updated analysis of an ancient child that was discovered in 1998 in the Lapedo Valley of P
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 04, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have created a new therapeutic approach for testing fragile X syndrome, which is the most common genetic caus
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 27, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have now created an encyclopedia of gene function for all known human genes that code for protein. This data
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2025
Microbiology
Worldwide, hepatitis B is thought to be the second deadliest infection; about 5% of the global population are infection
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 19, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 18, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Muscular dystrophy is a disease caused by a genetic mutation. The muscles of muscular dystrophy patients weaken..
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
The microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract can have a significant influence on human health and disease, and this
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch