Digesting starch — a type of carbohydrate — is a crucial part of how we derive energy from food. New research published ...

CHICAGO – McDonald’s USA, Lopez Foods, a multi-protein producer and long-term supplier to McDonald’s, and agriculture ...

Cattle producers will be able to participate in the Enogen Feed Forward opportunity and receive a per head, per day payment ...

Humans carry multiple copies of the salivary amylase gene (AMY1), which helps begin breaking down starch in the mouth -- the ...

A recent study published in Science suggests that humans may have developed multiple copies of the gene for amylase — an enzyme that’s the first step in starch digestion — over 800,000 years ...

This work has led to important advances in the field, such as the identification of a starch-digesting enzyme called amylase in the saliva of pet dogs and various other mammals for the first time. The ...