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Scientists Create Artificial Catalysts Inspired by Living Enzymes

August 6, 2019

Researchers say their discovery could lead to industrial catalysts capable of producing methanol using less energy and at a l...

Compound Found in Red Wine Opens Door for New Treatments for Depression, Anxiety

July 30, 2019

Resveratrol, found in grape skin, shuts down depression-causing enzyme in brain

Exploiting Green Tides Thanks to a Marine Bacterium

July 10, 2019

Scientists have identified a marine bacterium whose enzymatic system can break down ulvan into an energy source

Salmon Get a Major Athletic Boost via a Single Enzyme

June 4, 2019

The findings help explain how the fish undertake arduous upstream migrations, and could help species acclimate to elevated wa...

Study May Explain Why Once-Promising Cancer Drugs Failed

January 25, 2019

Cells use 'battering ram' to get around cancer drug

A Trojan Horse Delivery for Treating a Rare, Potentially Deadly, Blood-Clotting Disorder

September 24, 2018

In this possible treatment, platelet blood cells carry an enzyme needed to prevent clots in TTP, while hiding the enzyme from...

Garlic Ingredient from the Lab Bench

August 28, 2018

Short total synthesis of ajoene, a biologically active component in oil extracts of garlic

Found: A Destructive Mechanism That Blocks the Brain from Knowing When to Stop Eating

August 23, 2018

An international team of researchers has uncovered a destructive mechanism at the molecular level that causes a well-known ph...

Doctors May Be Able to Enlist a Mysterious Enzyme to Stop Internal Bleeding

August 21, 2018

Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole and stop the bleeding...

Nanobot Pumps Destroy Nerve Agents

August 21, 2018

Once in the territory of science fiction, "nanobots" are closer than ever to becoming a reality, with possible applications i...

Sewage Sludge Leads to Biofuels Breakthrough

March 28, 2018

JBEI enzyme discovery enables first-time microbial production of an aromatic biofuel

Newly Discovered CRISPR Mechanism May Help Prevent Dangerous Errors

February 28, 2018

Better understanding of how gene editing works may make process safer

Fungal Enzymes Could Hold Secret to Making Renewable Energy From Wood

February 16, 2018

Researchers unlock key scientific challenge of how biorefineries can convert wood into biofuel in an environmental and cost-e...

These Bacteria Produce Gold by Digesting Toxic Metals

February 1, 2018

Bacterium C. metallidurans has found a way to extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals witho...

Protein Designed Entirely from Scratch Functions in Cells as a Genuine Enzyme

January 19, 2018

Princeton lab creates life-sustaining enzyme

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