Sulfur-reducing bacteria of the phylum Desulfobacterota play a crucial role in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle.

How do related proteins develop different functions? This is the question investigated by a research team involving Kiel ...

All known life on Earth stores genetic information using the same four-letter DNA alphabet. Researchers have now shown that ...

Enzymes are amazing catalysts. These proteins are made of nothing more than a handful of Earth-abundant elements, and they promote a vast array of reactions, convert chemical energy to physical motion ...

The federal project pairs Protein Evolution with Xytel and a national lab to push PET textile recycling toward ...

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. The anti-cancer molecule salinosporamide A, also called Marizomb, is in Phase III clinical ...

PET is a popular polyester, used to produce plastic packaging, textile fibers and almost 500 billion plastic bottles a year around the world. A French company called Carbios has announced a process it ...

This graphic shows how the identification of enzymes involved in ferroptosis can lead to the development of novel anti-cancer drugs that target the ferroptosis process. New research could pave the way ...

Stopping the cannibalistic behavior of a well-studied enzyme could be the key to new drugs to fight age-related diseases, according to a new study published online in Nature Cell Biology. For the ...