The ability to respond to changing surroundings was once considered exclusive to complex living organisms. Then came ...

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) acts as an important coenzyme that helps convert food into energy within the body. Korean researchers ...

Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). By pairing a noble metal with a natural enzyme, ...

When it comes to building molecules, proteins in our bodies often do a better job than even the best chemists in a lab. That’s why scientists are trying to harness their power to find new ways to make ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 15 (April 9, 2019), pp. 7298-7307 (10 pages) Thousands of biochemical reactions with characterized ...

Mechanistically, the chemists think that in the presence of the enzyme, there’s a formal hydrogen atom abstraction that is ...

For many years, the structure, stability, and catalytic properties of water-soluble enzymes have been studied by analysing their crystal structures and by investigating their catalytic properties when ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Nature has evolved thousands of enzymes to facilitate the many chemical reactions that take place inside organisms to sustain life. Now, researchers have designed artificial enzymes that sit on the ...

Quantumzyme Corp. (OTCQB: QTZM), a global leader in computational enzyme engineering and digital biocatalysis, today announced the expansion of its proprietary AI-powered enzyme design platform to ...

Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules.

Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research. By pairing a noble metal with a natural enzyme, scientists created a hybrid capable of churning out molecules at a rate comparable to ...