MSG was first prepared in 1908 by the Japanese biochemist Kikunae Ikeda. Ajinomoto means ‘the essence of flavour’ — and it ...

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Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavor enhancer that has been used for more than a century. At some point, however, it started to get a bad reputation and was said to be associated with various health ...

Ramen, especially instant ramen, can be a quick, wholesome, and warming meal, but you may have heard plenty of myths about ...

DURING the last two decades great progress has been made in the experimental study and theoretical interpretation of molecular spectra, which has thus become one of the most important means we ...

Fraser Stoddart, an organic chemist who shared a Nobel Prize for helping explore the potential of infinitesimal “molecular machines” that could one day revolutionize fields such as medicine ...

1 Department of Brain Biochemistry, Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland 2 Department of Physiology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ...

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