Hangovers are common during the holidays because Americans tend to drink double their usual amount of alcohol. Andrey Cherkasov - stock.adobe.com For those who got deep into the holiday spirits, there ...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Health Ministry to ban animal based L-cysteine and impose mandatory labeling of this substance in products sold in Malaysia. According to the 11th ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Human hair isn’t the only source of L-cys. You can extract it from poultry feathers ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the University of Eastern Finland completed a study which found that the amino acid L-cysteine can reduce the effect of hangover symptoms such as nausea, ...

Historically, much of weight loss advice focused on eating less and moving more. In recent times, researchers discovered that what, and not just how much, someone eats also influences weight loss and ...

This just might be a big hairy deal for carb lovers. Best-kept secret ingredients are blowing minds on social media: Your grocery-store breads could very well contain traces of human hair, duck ...

People with high levels of the amino acid cysteine carry 6-10 kilograms more fat than other people. Norwegian researchers studying this phenomenon are generating knowledge which could help to prevent ...

As the most reactive member of nature’s standard stable of amino acids, cysteine is commonly tapped as a nucleophile in enzyme active sites. But cysteine’s reactivity also makes it uniquely ...

It has previously been reported that cystinuria, as it appears clinically, represents at least three biochemically and genetically distinct diseases. 13 The present studies were undertaken to ...

When scientists genetically engineered mice so that they could not generate an amino acid called cysteine, and then fed the mice a diet without any cysteine in it, the mice lost 30% of their body ...