Plastic products frequently pile up in landfills or spill into natural habitats where they occupy space and endanger wildlife ...

Aging, neurological diseases and our bodies' stress response are all linked to the tiny power plants inside each cell known ...

Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (NSML) is a rare genetic disorder that causes short stature, distinctive facial ...

The use of enzymes has become increasingly popular in the baking industry to enhance baked good quality and consumer appeal. ...

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

The protein homeostasis (proteostasis) network (Balch et al, 2008), consisting of a collection of molecular chaperones, ...

Formulators are turning to hydrocolloids and enzymes to solve texture and stability challenges in plant-based dairy, meat and ...

Structural reconstruction of thousands of ancient nitrogenases through Earth’s history uncovers architectural constraints that shaped their evolution under global environmental transitions.

Research by microbiologists Martijn Wissink and Cornelia Welte of Radboud University, among others, is helping us understand ...

Despite being made from a relatively simple set of building blocks, ribonucleic acid (RNA) has a broad array of complex ...

Researchers have described a large set of previously unrecognized enzymatic domains—named the Lipocone superfamily—and outlined their evolutionary pathway from bacterial defense molecules to key ...

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