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Amino Acids

Amino Acids

25th Nov 201815th Nov 2020 Leave a comment

“The discoverers of the amino acids are among the elite of science”. This statement was made in a 1931 review of the history of the discovery of the amino acids, and having read the stories of how each of these compounds came to be known, I cannot help but agree.1,2 Just from a technical perspective,… Continue reading Amino Acids

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