Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemists have long dreamed of mimicking nature’s precision, and now, thanks to a repurposed enzyme, they’ve taken a leap closer.

As researchers look for ways to develop and improve everyday products ranging from fuel to medicines, enzymes provide nature's example of the control needed to make chemical reactions work in desired ...

Collagen is an important protein that helps build the tissues of humans and animals. It is very strong because it is made of ...

Discover how light-activated enzymes enhance microbial processes for rapid chemical reactions and innovative drug production.

The enzyme accelerates this reaction by 10 17 times, simply by positioning negative and positive charges in the active centre. Since the substrate contains a negatively charged group that is split off ...

The Tang, Garg, and Houk research groups have discovered nature's natural protein catalysts (enzymes) that catalyze the Alder-ene reaction. All groups are part of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & ...

CHAPEL HILL – All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds. But how slowly would these ...

Chemical engineers have developed an online tool that can accurately assign genes and proteins to unknown 'orphan' reactions, which are a major headache for biotechnology, drug development, and even ...

A metabolic enzyme found in the support cells surrounding tumors may hold the key to predicting which cancer patients will ...