The study adds to growing evidence that some often-underappreciated, 'non-essential' amino acids play important roles in the nervous system. The findings may provide a new way to identify people at ...

Of the 37 million patients in the U.S. with Type 2 diabetes, about half of them suffer from peripheral neuropathy, according to National Institutes of Health estimates. The condition causes numbness, ...

In 2001, researchers noticed that serine—unlike other amino acids—formed a charged, eight-membered cluster during electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (Anal. Chem. 2001 DOI: 10.1021/ac010284l).

Could one genetic mutation be sufficient to bring on complex psychopathology? For decades, dominant models of mental ...

D-serine as an adjunctive treatment did not outperform placebo overall in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), a new trial showed. However, depressive symptoms and anhedonia were ...

Glycine, a non-essential amino acid derived from serine, plays an increasingly recognized role in metabolic regulation.

A new method that successfully designs serine hydrolase enzymes capable of catalyzing ester hydrolysis with high efficiency, demonstrates a computational approach for creating de novo enzymes that ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Yartemlea ® (narsoplimab-wuug) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 2 years and older with hematopoietic stem cell transplant ...