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 ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

The creation of totally new enzymes can help improve the synthesis of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, devise new tools for molecular biology research, and develop new therapies. The new way of creating ...

Most chemical biology and drug discovery efforts are focused on identifying small-molecule tools or drugs that inhibit enzyme function 1. It is rare to encounter small-molecule enzyme activators, yet ...

Usually enzyme complexes make multistep processes easier by catalyzing sequential reactions in which the product of one enzyme becomes the substrate for the next. In a new finding, researchers report ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High incidence of chronic diseases globally and the need for personalized medicine, has encouraged several technological advancements in the form of recombinant DNA that ...

For many years, researchers have been investigating how a family of enzymes called APOBEC3 can help protect the body from pathogenic viruses, and how it relates to cancer. APOBEC3s are known to ...

In a new study published in Global Change Biology, Prof. Zhang Yuanming's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and ...

Smith, a microbiologist whose discovery revolutionize the field of genetic engineering, was a Johns Hopkins School of ...