Why do problems occur with a special variant of 'protein glues', the split inteins, that severely limit their use in producing proteins? A team has now answered this question.

Scientists say they have discovered how a group of proteins linked to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis act as 'guardians' of mitochondria, small organelles, or subunits, within a ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these ...

For the first time, scientists have built a detailed, interactive map of a human cell, revealing how thousands of proteins ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

Every year, thousands of tonnes of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...

A research team has uncovered the mechanism and underlying reason behind the transformation of residual cells into epidermal ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, ...

A consortium of EU-based scientists and bioethicists raise concerns about the implications and threats of artificial ...

Gene editing technologies have cemented their place as a valued method in the biological toolkit used by researchers around the globe.

At the heart of BioClick is a focus on group transfer reactions, a class of biochemical reactions that allow enzymes to precisely move small molecular chemical groups from one compound to another.

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