Scientists at Mayo Clinic have discovered how alcohol causes fatty liver disease (MASLD). Alcohol disrupts a key enzyme, ...

Timed release of therapeutic molecules from a soft nanofiber-hydrogel implant supports nerve regrowth and circuit repair ...

Nobel winners' mapping of ribosomes helps in development of new antibiotics (CNN)-- Two Americans and an Israeli were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for painstakingly mapping out ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Ubiquitin controls the lifespan and distribution of proteins in the cell, but it can also determine their shape, function, or ...

Excess fat in brain immune cells weakens defenses against Alzheimer’s. Blocking fat storage restored their ability to fight disease. For many years, scientists believed that fat in the brain had ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function.

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

In August 2017, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) launched the Major Research Plan “Dynamic ...

By Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Using reprogrammed biocatalysts, researchers are pushing the boundaries of enzymatic synthesis with a method that opens the door to a diverse array of valuable compounds.