A ribozyme found by accident selectively repairs broken RNA, suggesting early life could have preserved its genetic code ...

Many important medicines and agricultural compounds have origins in natural products made by microorganisms. One such ...

A new method developed by researchers at KAIST and Chungnam National University could drastically streamline drug interaction testing—replacing dozens of traditional experiments with just one. The ...

Frances Arnold on directed enzyme evolution: random mutation plus smart screening, and why it changed enzyme engineering and ...

Scientists have long relied on chemical traces locked inside ancient rocks to piece together the story of early life. Fossils ...

A new method that successfully designs serine hydrolase enzymes capable of catalyzing ester hydrolysis with high efficiency, demonstrates a computational approach for creating de novo enzymes that ...

A popular experiment that's recommended to demonstrate the functionality of enzymes is chewing a piece of bread for a moment, then paying attention to when it turns from a starchy flavor to begin ...