For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been using bacteria found in soil and water to chemically convert steroids into ...

A research team has developed a fluorescent probe that allows scientists to visualize how individual lipid droplets break down inside living cells in real time. The probe changes its fluorescence ...

What: Scientists discovered a bacterium (Hydrogenobacter) in Yellowstone that breathes both oxygen (aerobic) and elemental ...

So, what type of molecule is an enzyme? While the vast majority of enzymes are proteins, a small but important group, known as ribozymes, is made of RNA. Proteins are large molecules built from long ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have discovered two enzymes that use a never-before-seen mechanism to confer resistance ...

Sea cucumbers scrub the seafloor. Soon, they might scrub out cancer. A team of researchers from the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, and Georgetown University has discovered a sugar compound in ...

Best known for their role in cleaning the ocean floor, sea cucumbers may also hold the key to slowing the progression of cancer. A new study has found that a sugar compound derived from these marine ...

Scientists have long struggled to target proteins that lack defined structure and are involved in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's disease, and other serious illnesses. Now, a new ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford University have illuminated one of the great mysteries of life – how enzymes are ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Endonuclease III (EndoIII), a key enzyme in the base excision repair (BER) pathway, ...