Walk into almost any modern laboratory and you’ll probably picture rows of advanced machines humming away, building the clean ...

Enzymes can not only learn from synthetic chemistry but can also enable new chemistry that has never been realized before. So say researchers at the California Institute of Technology who have ...

A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde and her team shows how soil microbes steer carbon flow to adapt and create ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have discovered two enzymes that use a never-before-seen mechanism to confer resistance ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin defined the structure of a substrate-bound iron 2-oxoglutarate (Fe/2OG) enzyme to explore whether these enzymes ...

Enzyme structure and function are routinely studied by altering the DNA that encodes the enzyme, thus replacing specific amino-acid residues in the enzyme with other residues. Unfortunately, the ...

The European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) have revealed a new approach to assessing consumer exposure to food enzymes, tightening up their safety profile in line with current EU law. Details of ...

Plastic is a major environmental issue, since most of it doesn’t break down easily – and even when it does, it usually forms microplastic pieces that pose their own problems. A new type of compostable ...

In the cells of humans and other organisms, only a subset of genes are active at any given time, depending largely on the stage of life and the particular duties of the cell. Cells use different ...

Anchorage-dependent cells are cells that require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between sugar metabolism and alcohol addiction, identifying a potential new ...