Consuming fewer calories is largely accepted as a way to improve health and lose weight, but a recently published study in Nature Metabolism points to a specific sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine ...

This important study provides new insights into how Staphylococcus aureus adapts to disulfide stress through the redox-sensitive regulator Spx, which coordinates nutrient uptake, cysteine import, ...

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 ...

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 ...