Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the U. of I., the team reported its findings in the ...

A couple of years ago, scientists discovered an enzyme in a waste recycling center in Japan that digests plastic. During a recent experiment to understand how this enzyme works, scientists ...

Mysterious microbes that thrive in hot and super-salty brine lakes at the bottom of the Red Sea could yield a treasure trove of new enzymes for industrial applications--if only scientists had access ...

An University of California Los Angeles’ team of chemists, biologists and engineers has developed a funky lab-in-a-chip capable of performing 1,024 chemical reactions in parallel. Using microfluidics, ...