Tag: Amino Acid

  • Nation & World

    Dietary link found to drug-resistant breast cancer

    Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have linked a common dietary element to breast cancer drug resistance, raising the prospect of a new way to attack a major cause of breast cancer death.

    4 minutes
    meats, fish, dairy, eggs, white meat on a wooden table as background
  • Nation & World

    A hidden genetic code

    For decades, scientists wondered whether there was some subtle difference between parts of the genetic code that, while different, appear to encode the same amino acid. Harvard researchers now have the answer.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Thinking ahead on diabetes

    By measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood, doctors may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear.

    4 minutes