You can still digest it, you still get the calories.” This is thanks to AMY2, a gene expressed in the pancreas: This version ...

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

Various types of biocatalysts—also termed enzymes—release C skeletons from starch when they are needed as building blocks or ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...

McDonald’s is paying four cents per animal per day, to farms that use Syngenta’s feed efficient Enogen trait, to help cut ...

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 ...

Glacier FarmMedia - A partnership between McDonald’s and Syngenta, which will start in the U.S., will pay beef producers to ...