Enzymes are crucial to life. They are nature's little catalysts. In the gut, they help us digest food. They can enhance ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Researchers from Mainz University and EMBL Hamburg present a new approach to determine the form of disordered proteins by ...

A new ML-guided platform can design thousands of new enzymes, predict how they will behave in the real world, and test their performance.

A research team has discovered how the 'Shethna protein II' protects the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase from damage. The oxygen sensor protein could help to make nitrogenase usable in ...

Taq polymerase. © Emphase / EPFL DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot ...

A new storage technique can keep protein-based drugs and vaccines stable without keeping them cold. The discovery, led by ...

The work overcomes current conventional approaches to enzyme engineering, which are limited across multiple dimensions: Small functional datasets lead to missed interactions among different amino acid ...

Researchers at Tufts University revealed a possible molecular mechanism explaining how the DNA repeats are broken and then expanded in the Huntington’s disease gene, pointing to a component of the ...

People genetically susceptible to Huntington's disease often see their movement, mood, and cognition decline slowly over time.