Methionine is an amino acid that is used to build molecules important for cell and DNA function. Meat, eggs, fish, and other foods containing protein will have some methionine in them. Amino acids ...

Muscle meat is rich in the amino acid methionine but relatively low in glycine. In the online health community, there has been a lot of speculation that a high intake of methionine — along with too ...

Deadly brain cancers called diffuse midline gliomas are uniquely dependent on methionine, an amino acid abundant in legumes and poultry. Some brain cancers are easier to treat than others. Many solid ...

New research in mice suggests that a simple dietary change can improve the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments. By feeding the mice a diet low in methionine, an essential amino acid that we get ...

A recent study published in the medical journal Gut has revealed a novel cancer-promoting mechanism of Streptococcus ...

Thanks to the chemistry of its thiol group, cysteine has long been the go-to amino acid when researchers want to modify a protein. It’s easy to pluck off cysteine’s thiol proton and replace it with ...