The Sistine Chapel wasn’t built in a day, but thanks to the amino acid cysteine (Cys, C) your hair can be […]

What’s Tweety bird’s fave amino acid?  tWiptophan! Tryptophan (Trp) is abbreviated W & you can remember this by saying it […]

Who doesn’t love the smell of maple syrup? Doctors who smell it coming from diapers! Don’t know what I’m talking […]

No losers here – just LEUCINE! Lighten up! But stay lucid!  today I’m elucidating the amino acid Leucine (Leu, L) […]

I know it’s not tis *that* season, but would you be my Valine-tine? Today in #20DaysOfAminoAcids, another protein letter to […]

Today I’m kicking off the 2020 bumbling biochemist’s version of an advent calendar – #20DaysOfAminoAcids – with the “opening up” […]

Did you get the catecholamine call? It’s ADRENALINE!!!!!!!!!!  Fight, flight, or flood your friends ‘ ears about finally getting your […]

If you liked it then you shoulda put benzene on it! Add a methylene linker and you get the phenomenal […]

Three cheers for THREONINE! Once scientists identified the first amino acids, the race was on – Pokemon Go amino acid […]

Fa L-Ala L-Ala L-Ala L-Ala! There’s a lot to love about ALANINE! It’s the smallest CHIRAL amino acid ever seen […]