A research team has uncovered and reconstructed the complete biosynthetic pathway of polyphyllin II—a potent anticancer ...

A new in vivo pharmacokinetic recall study involving 114 participants in the Estonian Biobank has provided the first clinical ...

Triterpenoid saponins are key bioactive compounds responsible for the medicinal value of many plants, yet how plants regulate the balance between saponin production and sterol biosynthesis has ...

Molecular electronic devices using quantum tunneling could achieve integration densities 1,000 times greater than silicon chips by combining atomic-precision assembly with three-dimensional ...

A study from Chulalongkorn University and the University of Florida has found that a balanced mixture of plant extracts containing cannabidiol (CBD), L-DOPA, and isoflavonoids dramatically increased ...

Analyze the mystery of Yunnan’s blue-staining mushrooms and the science behind the "little people" hallucinations reported across global cultures.

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

Gifu University scientists have uncovered how a brain-specific enzyme reshapes protein-linked sugar chains to facilitate the ...

The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

Gifu University scientists have uncovered how a brain-specific enzyme reshapes protein-linked sugar chains to facilitate the formation of complex glycans essential for normal brain function. These ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...