Essential to life as constituents of amino acids, amines occur in drugs and vitamins, and are used also to manufacture cosmetics, cleaning and crop protection agents, plastics, and coating resins.

In chemistry, an amino acid is a molecule containing both amine and carboxyl functional groups. These molecules are particularly important in biochemistry, where this term refers to alpha-amino ...

To develop a covalent modifier for the amyloid-forming protein β-2-microglobulin (magenta), researchers used a nanobody (teal) specific to the protein. Developing covalent drugs, which bind ...