A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

A popular experiment that's recommended to demonstrate the functionality of enzymes is chewing a piece of bread for a moment, then paying attention to when it turns from a starchy flavor to begin ...

An analysis of an unusual enzyme could result in a new generation of antimicrobial medicines to counter antibiotic resistance ...

Could an enzyme responsible for breaking down and eliminating booze from our bodies also be able to help us lead longer, healthier lives? Scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism that could ...

An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...

The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

The authors’ approach is deceptively simple: take an aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme, which naturally converts aldehydes to acids, and get it to react with an amine instead of water. But actually making ...