: a sweet crystalline amino acid C2H5NO2 obtained especially by hydrolysis of proteins
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Scallops Scallops are a source of lean protein and high in the amino acids taurine and glycine.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
In a rotating planetary ball mill, graphite flakes were mixed with potassium hydroxide and glycine, a simple amino acid found in living organisms.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
Creatine is a compound that the body makes from the amino acids arginine, glycine, and methionine.
—Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2025
Your liver relies on amino acids from protein — like glycine, cysteine and glutamate — to make glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant.
—Lauren Mallers, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 31 Dec. 2025
In a rotating planetary ball mill, graphite flakes were mixed with potassium hydroxide and glycine, a simple amino acid found in living organisms.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2025
Creatine is a compound that the body makes from the amino acids arginine, glycine, and methionine.
—Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2025
Your liver relies on amino acids from protein — like glycine, cysteine and glutamate — to make glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant.
—Lauren Mallers, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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“Glycine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glycine. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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: a sweet crystalline nonessential amino acid C2H5NO2 that is a neurotransmitter which induces inhibition of postsynaptic neurons, is obtained by hydrolysis of proteins or is prepared synthetically, and is used in the form of its salt as an antacid or in aqueous solution as an irrigating fluid in transurethral surgery
—abbreviation Gly
called also aminoacetic acid, glycocoll
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