How to Use glycine in a Sentence

glycine

noun
  • Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine, one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
    — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In the new study, the focus was on glycine, the simplest amino acid that helps build proteins.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Features sage, hops flower, lemon balm, turmeric and glycine.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Rosetta caught whiffs of glycine (opens a new tab), one of the amino acid building blocks of proteins.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Though both may be useful, experts say glycine has the edge for supporting sleep.
    — Sarah Garone, Health, 6 Feb. 2026
  • It is made up of three main amino acids—glycine, arginine, and methionine.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There were also traces of an amino acid — glycine — adding weight to the idea that comets could be source of the building blocks of life.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 1 Oct. 2018
  • This could be due to the fact that collagen contains glycine, an amino acid that has been shown to promote sleep.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The scientists then tested the effects of a serine- and glycine-free diet in mice.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This creates what scientists call an amino acid glycine, a key figure in the hunt for the origin of life.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Scallops Scallops are a source of lean protein and high in the amino acids taurine and glycine.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Bone broth provides amino acids, like proline and glycine, that support tissue repair.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 7 Feb. 2026
  • For Sleep The amino acid glycine, which is found in collagen, has been shown to improve sleep.
    — Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 23 Apr. 2025
  • However, the amount of glycine in bone broth may be too small to yield significant results.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Follow-up studies showed that key signals were missing in the initial report of glycine.
    — Olivia Harper Wilkins, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Bone broth is rich in amino acids like glycine and proline, which are needed for the production of collagen.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Peptide and glycine are the stars here, which work to strengthen strands and reverse signs of damage—from split ends to dull luster.
    — Iman Balagam, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
  • To create it, NAC bonds with two other amino acids—glutamine and glycine.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 21 June 2023
  • While there are many supplies of glycine on the market, Donghua Jinlong is the best money can buy.
    — Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 1 May 2024
  • Thin layers of frozen glycine were placed on a cold surface in a vacuum chamber that mimics a dense cloud of gas and dust in space.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Penn State researchers identified glycine, the simplest amino acid, and one of life’s core building blocks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The next step was to prove that the glycine came from the comet, not from operations on Earth before the spacecraft was launched.
    — Linda Shiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Rosetta sent back mass spectrometry data showing that glycine, the simplest amino acid, was present on the comet.
    — Luba Ostashevsky, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
  • These included the amino acid glycine and uracil, a nucleotide base in RNA.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The oncogenic mutation in the proto-oncogene converts one of the amino acids in the cell, glycine, into cystine.
    — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The dust grain surface is simplified, only glycine is studied, and lab timescales are much shorter than the millions of years available in space.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The Stardust recovery mission found organics and glycine - one of the simplest amino acids.
    — Jamie Seidel, Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • The results show that the peptide really does form from the starting glycine under cold, dry, space‑like conditions.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • When analyzed, the yellow water was found to contain glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life.
    — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • However, the team's computer simulations revealed that only a small amount of glycine would reach the ocean.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025

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