By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive virtually every chemical reaction in our cells. For decades, scientists have ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For ...

A spoonful of sugar may make the medicine go down, but understanding what happens to that sugar in the cell is far more complicated than simple digestion, according to researchers. For sugars to ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely used to treat a range of infections, including pneumonia and skin ...

Enzymes, which are crucial to controlling how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very ingredient that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate -- causing potentially permanent genetic ...

Researchers found that mice in which the IDO2 gene was silenced exhibited behaviors consistent with autism spectrum disorder. Further experiments shed light on the possible underlying biochemical ...

Scientists have uncovered how cannabis evolved the ability to make its most famous compounds—THC, CBD, and CBC—by recreating ...

Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm ...

Catalase enzymes play a pivotal role in cellular defence by decomposing hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, thereby mitigating oxidative stress. These oxidoreductases are ubiquitously found ...

MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecovyst Inc. (NYSE: ECVT), a leading integrated and innovative global provider of advanced materials, specialty catalysts ...