Over the past five years or so we've seen some important breakthroughs demonstrating how enzymes can be used to break down common plastics, such as the PET used for everything from drink bottles to ...

Mitochondrial diseases are severe, often untreatable, and they leave human cells unable to grow normally without outside help. A new study published in Nature Metabolism now shows that a single gene ...

image: Enzyme substrate specificity involving material conversion processes is pertinent to e.g. biochemistry, metabolic engineering, and environmental remediation; however, it is one of the most ...

All forms of life depend on enzymes—without them most biochemical reactions would proceed too slowly to sustain the processes of life. Enzymes function by binding to a compound known as a substrate.

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl group (C=O) to a nitrogen atom. They're so ubiquitous that 117 of the top ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple enzyme may hold the key to tackling a hard-to-treat type of leukemia in babies, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The finding could also form the basis for a new class of ...

CHICAGO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A simple enzyme may hold the key to tackling a hard-to-treat type of leukemia in babies, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Sign up here. The finding could also form the basis ...