Utah State University biochemists Derek Harris, left, and Lance Seefeldt, and and fellow colleagues with the NASA-funded Metal Utilization and Selection across Eons (MUSE) project at the University of ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...

Certain glycans -- sugar-like compounds with carbohydrate chains -- containing galactose, may exhibit potential prebiotic properties that support human health. Identifying enzymes capable of breaking ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have discovered two enzymes that use a never-before-seen mechanism to confer resistance ...

Enzymes are proteins that guide (catalyze) very specific chemical reactions. They play indispensable roles in all life forms. Some enzymes carry out the day-to-day business of biology like digesting ...

A metabolic enzyme found in the support cells surrounding tumors may hold the key to predicting which cancer patients will ...

Enzymes acting as Maxwell's demon In this study, the enzyme plays a comparable role through physical processes rather than intention. "Realizing the analogy to 'Maxwell's demon' was the critical ...

Engineered enzymes are poised to have transformative impacts across applications in energy, materials, biotechnology, and medicine. Recently, machine learning has emerged as a useful tool for enzyme ...

A multicolored 3D model of an enzyme binding double-stranded DNA against a light purple background Computational enzyme design could allow for reactions not seen in nature. Credit: Ian Haydon ...