Beans are a great source of vegetarian protein (they are rich in the essential amino acid lysine which is lacking in grains and other vegetarian protein sources), they are high in fiber, which is something a typical Western Diet is lacking in, and they have iron too, which we need for healthy red blood cells. (nuttynutritionandfitness.com)
It will swap out the chemical compound adenine for cytosine — or, in terms of the genetic alphabet, an «A» for a «C.» Because of that tiny code change, my bacteria cells will make the amino acid lysine instead of another one, threonine. (scientificamerican.com)
In that initial screen, the most efficient particle contained the amino acid lysine linked to an epoxide, so the researchers created an additional 43 nanoparticles similar to that one, for further testing. (sciencedaily.com)