A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

A new approach to enzyme engineering has overcome many of the operating challenges associated with large-scale bio-based ...

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as heterochromatin, makes up around half of your genetic material, and scientists are ...

Cancer drugs that inhibit CDK7 rapidly shut down pathways responsible for cell proliferation within minutes. For organs to ...

The cell can control a metabolic pathway by the presence or absence of a particular enzyme. The cell can also regulate the rate of reaction of key enzymes. Enzymes are able to bind to their ...

MIT scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development. Their optical system could guide the design of synthetic, light-activated cells ...

Each enzyme molecule has a special place called the active site where another molecule, called the substrate, fits. The substrate goes through a chemical reaction and changes into a new molecule ...

Moreover, h15-LOX-2 and other LOX enzymes may be involved in ferroptosis, a form of iron-dependent cell death associated with lipid peroxidation. In this case, inhibition of the enzyme may be ...

However, when the researchers blocked an earlier step in glycolysis, the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate isomerase, this had no ...