When we think of nutrition, most of us focus on calories, carbs, fats or protein. But dig a little deeper and you'll discover that amino acids are the real heroes quietly running the show inside our ...

Share on Pinterest Many plant-based proteins are less digestible and may have lower concentrations of one or more essential amino acids. Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images Vegans who meet their daily ...

A team analyzed the amino acids that affect the formation of spores in a bacterium that causes food poisoning, Clostridium perfringens, and identified serine as an amino acid that inhibits spore ...

Amino acids are absolutely essential to our health—and for life itself. They are the so-called “building blocks” of proteins. They play a key role in the growth, repair, and maintenance of almost ...