UC San Diego researchers uncover enzyme behind cancer genome chaos, pointing to potential therapies for aggressive tumors.

Scientists have identified a small flaw in the enzyme GPX4 that prevents neurons from defending themselves. This mutation, ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which ...

Biphenomycins, natural products derived from bacteria, show excellent antimicrobial activity, but have long remained out of ...

When you’re one of the 70 million Americans whose digestion is off, it’s understandable to want to do what you can to turn things around quickly. Social media is packed with posts from people who ...

A leading education union boss says headteachers will be unable to fulfil the government's latest plan to teach the sciences separately at GCSE because of an overwhelming lack of specialist teachers.

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new workflow for designing enzymes from scratch, paving the way toward more efficient, powerful and environmentally benign chemistry. The new method allows designers to ...