A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleoside triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), has been ...

The Michaelis-Menten equation is used to describe the dynamics of an enzymatic reaction, in which an enzyme interacts with a substrate to generate some product before the enzyme is released. Cells are ...

Scientists have long assumed that once the smooth cartilage in a damaged knee wears away, the body has little chance of ...

Researchers have learned more about an enzyme that is key to helping cells repair DNA after it sustains damage. DNA has to be maintained for the health of an organism, and cells have molecules to fix ...

Annotations of enzyme function provide critical starting points for generating and testing biological hypotheses, but the quality of functional annotations is hindered by uncertain assignments for ...

Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm ...

The addition of ubiquitin (Ub) and ubiquitin-like (Ubl) modifiers to proteins serves to modulate function and is a key step in protein degradation, epigenetic modification and intracellular ...

A research team reports that advances in protein design—especially when combined with artificial intelligence—are rapidly ...

Body odor is an unpleasant fact of life that we’ve all experienced in some way. Bacteria in the armpit have long been known to be the stinky culprits, and now scientists have discovered a “BO enzyme” ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When I first began making bread, the science ...