A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Scientists discovered hundreds of energy-making enzymes secretly working on human DNA—revealing a hidden “mini-metabolism” ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

Cancer is a universal issue which affects many people around the world. Many will turn to surgery in the hope a surgeon will ...

Finding out how microbes make compounds containing the diazo chemical group could help researchers to synthesize useful ...

Researchers discovered that coronaviruses exploit cellular stress responses to activate enzymes that modify transfer RNAs, reshaping the protein-making machinery to favor viral replication.

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

27 Department ofEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Germany 28 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia Faculty of ...