School of Chemistry, Food Biosciences and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AD, U.K.

Excess sugar can lower good and raise bad cholesterol levels. Eating foods high in healthy dietary fat, especially the essential omega-3 fatty acids, is the best way to get your nutrients. However, ...

Lysine is one of the essential amino acids that the body cannot make and that people need to obtain from dietary sources. Lysine, also called L-lysine, is an amino acid necessary for many bodily ...

SpaceX's mission to launch the first astronauts into polar orbit is quickly approaching. Named for the Norwegian seafaring ship Fram, which completed expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic ...

A new study reported on by the Guardian has confirmed what climate scientists have feared for years: Earth's glaciers are melting at a record-breaking pace. Glaciers worldwide are vanishing at an ...

Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, China ...

Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) is responsible for advancing Canada’s knowledge of the Arctic, strengthening Canadian leadership in polar science and technology, and promoting the development and ...

Amino acids are the building blocks that form polypeptides and ultimately proteins. Consequently, they are fundamental components of our bodies and vital for physiological functions such as protein ...

Since its inception in 2017, the Polar Institute has become a premier forum for discussion and policy analysis of Arctic and Antarctic issues, and is known in Washington, DC and elsewhere as the ...

An inadequate supply of amino acids leads to accumulation of uncharged tRNAs, which can bind and activate GCN2 kinase to reduce translation. Here, we show that glutamine-specific tRNAs selectively ...