Essential amino acids are organic compounds that your body needs to function. You can get them from certain foods. Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks of proteins, are compounds ...

Semaglutide comprises 31 amino acids, with few differences from natural GLP-1 [1]. These center around keeping it shelf-stable for longer. It originally started as a diabetes medication but has ...

Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Once opened, compounded semaglutide typically lasts 28 days in the fridge. Compounded semaglutide, which contains the same active ...

It uses the same 4 bases to code for the same set of 20 amino acids to produce all proteins across all organisms. This suggests that all organisms are derived from the one initial common ancestor.

A new study shows that semaglutide can improve glucose levels for people with type 1 diabetes who use automated pumps, without increasing hypoglycemia. In this double-blinded randomized trial ...

Let's take a closer look at each of these medications. Wegovy is a GLP-1 agonist containing semaglutide, the same active ingredient as Ozempic. While both medications share this ingredient ...

Commercially available therapeutic lipidated GLP-1 analogues, semaglutide and liraglutide, have the great advantage of prolonged half-lives in vivo of hours and days instead of minutes as is the case ...

Semaglutide is now approved for T2D patients with CKD, reducing cardiovascular and kidney disease risks. The FLOW phase 3b trial showed significant reductions in adverse kidney and cardiovascular ...