A cell sitting in fluid looks like one of the most passive things in biology. Nutrients drift toward it on the aimless ...

Many natural plant compounds have promising health-related properties, but their poor water solubility can limit how ...

In the souks and family kitchens of Morocco, the ritual of pouring a steaming glass of herbal tea is far more than ...

Utilizing Fluorine-19 NMR in enzyme inhibition studies provides direct measurements for drug discovery, highlighting its ...

A carboxylesterase from Bacillus halotolerans outperforms known enzymes at converting the PET breakdown products BHET and ...

The brain has the ability to modify the contacts between neurons. Among other things, that is how it prevents brain activity from getting out of control. Researchers have now identified a mechanism ...

Here the authors characterise two botulinum-like toxins, PG1 and PG2. Their light chains cut a key protein in fruit flies; PG1 is toxic even without its heavy chain. PG1 has a distinct compact ...

A new approach that changes just one atom in plastic-degrading enzymes could help make them more efficient while maintaining their stability, according to new research from The Australian National ...

Microbes in our gut produce enzymes that help with our metabolism and influence our health. For example, bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) cleave parts of bile acids, leading to the formation of secondary ...

Enzymes are biological catalysts that facilitate biochemical transformations. An international team of bioinformatics researchers has developed a new process for predicting Michaelis constants, which ...