Our reliance on these molecules is incredible.

Dr. Xuejun Zhu, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded a Welch Foundation grant to help uncover and characterize enzymes ...

Enzymes, which are crucial to controlling how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very ingredient that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate -- causing potentially permanent genetic ...

In the human body, molecules known as kinases propagate signals within and between cells, relaying signals that allow cells to respond to changes in the environment. But there are hundreds of ...

A new paper in Nature Communications illuminates how a previously poorly understood enzyme works in the cell. Many diseases are tied to chronic cellular stress, and UMBC's Aaron T. Smith and ...

Catalase enzymes play a pivotal role in cellular defence by decomposing hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, thereby mitigating oxidative stress. These oxidoreductases are ubiquitously found ...

Visual representations of the chitinase surface and secondary structures. New findings about chitinases, enzymes found naturally in plants, could allow farmers to address fungal infections sooner and ...

L-Asparaginase is an enzyme that has revolutionized the treatment of certain types of cancer, particularly acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine, an ...

How can we know what life on Earth looked like more than three billion years ago, when rocks from that era are so rare and difficult to exploit? To answer this question, researchers have adopted ...