The molecular structure of an enzyme from a marine bacterium with potential industrial uses has been determined by RIKEN ...

A new genome sequencing study has revealed valuable information about how the golden sweeper fish produces light. Their body ...

Researchers have identified a versatile enzyme capable of reshaping peptide-based drugs into more stable, longer-lasting forms.

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...

Grant is an M.D./M.B.A. student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School, a researcher at Boston Children’s ...

The tumor begins before birth. Somewhere in the developing fetus, neural crest cells that should have matured into adrenal tissue or sympathetic ganglia take a wrong turn, and a child is born ...

Scientists created a definitive E3 ligase atlas, resolving inconsistencies and enabling better disease research and drug ...

Enzyme mechanisms of catalysis play many important roles in the functioning of a healthy body. An enzyme may exist as a multi-subunit complex or it may be associated with a cofactor such as adenosine ...

Immunotherapies have transformed cancer treatment by helping the immune system recognize and attack tumors. They work for only about 20% of patients, though, and doctors still struggle to predict who ...

A trio of researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has developed a ...

A fat-producing enzyme in brain cells may play a key role in driving damage in Parkinson's disease and could offer a new ...