Many important medicines and agricultural compounds have origins in natural products made by microorganisms. One such ...

Enzymes are regarded as the key to sustainable chemistry. Despite major advances in protein design, creating artificial enzymes from scratch has so far remained a grand challenge. A research team at ...

The first step to removing a stain is identifying where it came from, which will dictate how and what you need to get it out ...

Silver nanoparticles provide a more efficient way to cut and assemble DNA, improving recovery rates and boosting DNA joining ...

If you eat a balanced and fibrous diet replete with natural probiotics, you likely don’t need digestive enzyme supplementation. But for those of us with a slow metabolism, IBS (irritable bowel ...

The SMART method accelerates enzyme evolution by reducing the selection period for superior variants from several weeks to a few days, and decreases overall enzyme engineering campaign costs by ...

A joint research team from China Pharmaceutical University, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Engineering ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For example, they make it possible to synthesise chemicals in a more ...

A multicolored 3D model of an enzyme binding double-stranded DNA against a light purple background Computational enzyme design could allow for reactions not seen in nature. Credit: Ian Haydon ...

Microscopic droplets fluoresce bright blue with specks of green. Five droplets in this image (two at the top, two near the center, and one near the bottom) fluoresce blue in varying brightness; each ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Cell-free biocatalysis is a rapidly evolving field with great potential for ...