Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the U. of I., the team reported its findings in the journal Nature Communications. "Enzymes have been increasingly used in ...

A new cloud-based service from New England Biolabs, a purveyor of enzymes for molecular biology use, will provide hands-free help to lab researchers. Molecular biologists can ask Amazon’s Alexa ...

While the process of copying DNA to make new strands includes a proofreading function to ensure accuracy, the so-called reverse transcriptase enzymes that make RNA into DNA copies perform no such ...

How can we know what life on Earth looked like more than three billion years ago, when rocks from that era are so rare and ...

Our DNA is organized into chromosomes, and the ends of chromosomes are protected with caps called telomeres; when cells divide, they lose a very small amount of DNA from those ends. Short telomeres ...

Researchers have found that peroxiredoxins, a family of antioxidant enzymes central to how cells manage oxidative stress, can ...

Enzymes are extraordinary biocatalysts –they are the machinery within cell factories crafted by Nature over aeons of evolution. The aims of my research are focused upon using techniques in synthetic ...

Every cell in the body uses phosphorylation, the process of adding a chemical tag to control a protein's function and fate, such as when it moves from one part of a cell to another or binds to other ...

UK-based scientists have created the world's first enzymes made from artificial genetic material. The breakthrough work conducted by the Medical Research Council confirms its place as one of the ...

Scientists first observed the biological phenomenon of restriction and modification in the 1950s, but they did not identify and isolate restriction enzymes until the late 1960s. 3 In 1970, Hamilton ...

(Nanowerk News) By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of ...