Word: amino
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...fact sheet issued by the campaign says that 31 deaths and more than 1500 serious illnesses "have been attributed to a genetically engineered amino acid called L-tryptophan." The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to regulate the sale of the product because it was not labeled as "genetically engineered," the sheet charges...
...such a small mistake -- the equivalent of changing the spelling of Smith to Smyth -- have such an impact? Each three-letter "word" of a gene "sentence" spells out the instructions for producing 1 of 20 amino acids, compounds that in turn link to form proteins. A change in just one letter can result in the substitution of one amino acid for another. The new amino acid will be larger, smaller, stiffer or more elastic than the correct one. In ways radical and subtle, it will affect the shape of the protein and its activity. For if a cell is like...
...Professor Gingerich stated, there is only one thing we could wish for once that happens: "We would have to hope that our amino acids would rotate and we would poison them...
Monosodium Glutamate is a version of glutamic acid, an amino acid present in most proteins. It has been a staple of cooking in Asia for 2,000 years, and was originally produced from seaweed. In China, it is called, depending on the region, mei-jing, wei-jing or ve-tsin...
...label on a bottle of complex multivitamins. Much of the uproar has been stirred by the Nutritional Health Alliance, a pressure group that accuses the FDA of trying to empty the shelves of the health-food stores and require a doctor's prescription for herbs and amino acids. "They intend to destroy the ; industry," says Gerald Kessler, executive director of NHA and founder of Nature's Plus vitamins. "They want to take 9 out of 10 supplements and call them unsafe food additives or drugs...