Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Cannabis has been part of human culture for thousands of years, yet the molecular machinery that gives the plant its ...

Scientists have discovered that blocking a key cellular enzyme thought to protect against fatty liver disease may instead ...

New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed how puppetry and other creative methods can effectively make complex scientific topics, such as plastic recycling, more understandable and ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

Using a technique called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the ...

In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists have now derived universal rules to enable the de novo design of optimal enzymes. As an example, they ...

A growing body of research suggests that combining enzymes with biochar, a carbon-rich material made from agricultural and ...

Enzymes help digest food, clean laundry, make perfumes, and build medicines. They also break down toxins in the environment. Because of their wide use, scientists have worked for years to create ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, and a good amount of it is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, ♳). This polymer is used to make bottles, containers and even clothing. Now, researchers report ...

The research team identified an enzyme called SCoR2 that removes nitric oxide from proteins that control fat buildup in the ...