Enzymes, biological catalysts integral to metabolic processes, have increasingly become central to numerous industrial applications. Their inherent specificity, efficiency under mild conditions, and ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

A library of cloned DNA is produced from the metagenome. Primary screening, including both sequence-based screening and activity-based screening, produces enzyme libraries that serve as platforms for ...

AI can help protein engineers optimize the transcription enzymes used to make mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics, say the authors of a new study.

(Nanowerk News) A Kansas State University chemical engineer has developed and patented a chemical structure to make all-natural personal care products and purer pharmaceuticals in the laboratory.

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl ...

Researchers for the first time have shown that members of a family of enzymes known as cathepsins – which are implicated in many disease processes – may attack one another instead of the bodily ...

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. The anti-cancer molecule salinosporamide A, also called Marizomb, is in Phase III clinical ...

Recently published in Nature Communications, the NASA-funded study uses synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern enzymes and rebuild their possible ancestors. Betül Kaçar, a professor of ...

High-resolution structures explain the mechanism of human PNPase and provide insights into mutations causing hereditary hearing loss and neurological disease. Researchers at the Department of Cell and ...