Treating brain diseases like tumors and Alzheimer's is notoriously difficult due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which blocks most drugs. While nanomedicine offers a promising solution, its path to ...

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A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

From the 1950s to 1970s, discovery of enzymes began by identifying new chemical reactions within cell-free extracts, but ...

Scientists discovered hundreds of energy-making enzymes secretly working on human DNA—revealing a hidden “mini-metabolism” ...

Cancer is a universal issue which affects many people around the world. Many will turn to surgery in the hope a surgeon will ...

Frances Arnold's game-changing technique of "directed evolution" creates enzymes with unusual capabilities. Her own evolution made it possible.

A bone-like composite developed at EPFL uses naturally occurring enzymes to accelerate mineralization through an ...

A protein reinforces the blood–brain barrier, which becomes leaky with age. Exercise prevents brain ageing and memory loss by strengthening the blood–brain barrier, the structure that keeps harmful ...

The story so far: Bio-based chemicals are industrial chemicals produced using biological feedstocks like sugarcane, corn, starch, or biomass residues, often through fermentation or enzymatic processes ...