Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the U. of I., the team reported its findings in the journal Nature Communications. "Enzymes have been increasingly used in ...

Researchers have found that peroxiredoxins, a family of antioxidant enzymes central to how cells manage oxidative stress, can ...

Peroxiredoxins are among the most abundant enzymes involved in managing oxidative stress. They control the levels of ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have produced experimental evidence that quantum-level effects can alter the ...

Scientists first observed the biological phenomenon of restriction and modification in the 1950s, but they did not identify and isolate restriction enzymes until the late 1960s. 3 In 1970, Hamilton ...

In the avalanche of research being generated on the human microbiome, it’s important to take a step back and think about the many basic facts of the system that we don’t know anything about. One ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sherlock Biosciences, an Engineering Biology company dedicated to making diagnostic testing better, faster and more affordable, today announced the discovery of ...

Our bodies perform many critical metabolic reactions, using a wide range of enzymes and other molecules. When there is a ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High incidence of chronic diseases globally and the need for personalized medicine, has encouraged several technological advancements in the form of recombinant DNA that ...

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