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

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

Coronaviruses not only use the machinery of the human cells they infect: they modify them to achieve optimal conditions to ...

More than 200 metabolic enzymes, many of which are normally tasked with producing energy in the mitochondria, are also found ...

Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research (RCLR), George Carman, recently received the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's ...

Finding out how microbes make compounds containing the diazo chemical group could help researchers to synthesize useful ...

Researchers uncover the protective role of LOXL2 protein in preventing cartilage damage CHENGDU, SICHUAN, CHINA, March ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers have used that green fluorescent protein and similar molecules to light up ...

All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as life evolved to be more elaborate, it also had to ...

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

Our joints rely on smooth, resilient cartilage and disc, which act as natural shock absorbers to enable painless movement. However, when these ...