The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

A low-dose mix of zinc, serine, and branched-chain amino acids increased neural function and improved social behavior in ...

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 ...

A recent study from the University of California San Diego has found a new lead. The researchers discovered that an enzyme in ...

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).

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 ...