Researchers from CIIMAR and the University of Helsinki have discovered a new biochemical modification in natural ...

Studies have shown that restricting the intake of calories without reducing the intake of vitamins and minerals slows the signs of aging in a wide range of animals including monkeys, rats and fish, ...

Enzymes, biological catalysts integral to metabolic processes, have increasingly become central to numerous industrial applications. Their inherent specificity, efficiency under mild conditions, and ...

Enzymes are proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions. In addition to performing biochemical reactions in living organisms, enzymes also function in vitro, which allows for the use of enzymes in ...

A groundbreaking discovery by Australian scientists has unveiled an enzyme capable of converting air into electricity. This advancement, published in Nature, paves the way for a new generation of ...

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. The anti-cancer molecule salinosporamide A, also called Marizomb, is in Phase III clinical ...

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce ...

PET is a popular polyester, used to produce plastic packaging, textile fibers and almost 500 billion plastic bottles a year around the world. A French company called Carbios has announced a process it ...

PHILADELPHIA-- Stopping the cannibalistic behavior of a well-studied enzyme could be the key to new drugs to fight age-related diseases, according to a new study published online in Nature Cell ...

Anchorage-dependent cells are cells that require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, ...

Conversion of biomass to fuel requires several steps: chemical pretreatment to break up the biomass, detoxification to remove the toxic chemicals required in pretreatment, and microbial fermentation ...