Enzymes help digest food, clean laundry, make perfumes, and build medicines. They also break down toxins in the environment. Because of their wide use, scientists have worked for years to create ...

SMART method accelerates enzyme evolution by reducing the selection period for superior variants and decreases overall enzyme ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that an enzyme in the liver may partly explain sex differences in the body's ...

For decades, circular RNA was treated as little more than molecular background noise — stable fragments that accumulated in ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. Pretty much all life on Earth – plants, animals, humans – in large ...

As biology coursework at institutions like Georgia Military College intensifies, students are increasingly turning to AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and dedicated lab report generators to bridge the ...

PET is one of the most widely used plastics. In principle, PET molecules can be broken down into their basic building blocks using suitable enzymes. In practice, however, these approaches are ...

X-ray fragment screening combined with directed evolution turned a simple designed protein into two new proteins, including the most active designed enzyme to date.

Enzyme assays are evolving from traditional spectrophotometric methods to high-throughput, AI-powered platforms that accelerate drug discovery, diagnostics, and sustainable chemistry. Advances like ...