Made up of tiny threads known as cellulose microfibrils, plant cell walls are important for regulating a plant’s growth and protecting them from pests and pathogens. Previously only one route for ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, using the simple fission yeast as a model, have shown that a new target of rapamycin (TOR) inhibitor, ...

Scientists have discovered how to target a class of molecular switches called GTPases that are involved in a myriad of diseases from Parkinson's to cancer and have long been thought to be 'undruggable ...

(Nanowerk News) Industrial biocatalysis is mainly used for the production of pharmaceuticals and special chemicals. To advance this process, researchers are working on new process technologies. In ...

Cationic CDs, which possess a positively charged surface, have shown the ability to mimic natural enzyme applications. The positive charge on the surfaces of these nanomaterials significantly ...

Researchers have captured real-time "molecular movies" showing how an enzyme changes shape during catalysis. The study was published in Nature Communications.

Persistently elevated liver enzymes may be caused by certain types of cancer, including liver, colon, breast, stomach, pancreas, and skin cancers. Liver enzymes are proteins produced by your liver.

Obesity is a global epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality because it increases the risk for comorbidities, ...

"There are three digestive enzymes made by your pancreas," says Mary Vouyiouklis Kellis, MD, a specialist in the department of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the Cleveland Clinic. "Most ...