New PET radiotracer provides first look at inflammation biomarker in human brain
A novel PET imaging approach can effectively quantify a key enzyme associated with brain inflammation, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The ...
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Inhibition of PCSK9: a promising enhancer for anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy
Recently, the research team led by Professor Zhang Zhongtao and Professor Yao Hongwei from the General Surgery Center at ...
UPDATE: Quantumzyme Introduces Naveen Kulkarni as CEO To Lead the Next Phase of Innovation in Biocatalysis
Quantumzyme Corp. (OTC PINK: QTZM), a pioneering biotechnology company specializing in computational enzyme engineering, is pleased to introduce our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Director, Mr.
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Inhibition of carbohydrate digestive enzymes by a complementary essential oil blend: in silico and mixture design approaches
Background: The increasing demand for natural alternatives ... This study aims to optimize an EO mixture for inhibiting two key enzymes involved in glucose digestion: pancreatic α-amylase and ...
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Bowen Yang reacts to ‘background actor’s’ claim he got Shane Gillis fired from SNL
“Didn’t do any of this but i wrote the sketch you were a background actor in [smiley face emoji].” “We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days ...
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Don’t call them ‘extras.’ For one night, Hollywood’s background actors are the real stars
For seven years, background actors have been recognizing their own at the ceremony. In some ways, the background actor awards are not unlike the efforts from other categories of actors ...
Japan Today1mon
Enzymes are the engines of life
Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the attention of scientists like me. Consider muscle movement. Your body ...
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CHARMM-GUI EnzyDocker for Protein–Ligand Docking of Multiple Reactive States along a Reaction Coordinate in Enzymes
Department of Chemistry, Israel National Institute of Energy Storage (INIES) and Institute for Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel ...
C&EN1mon
Enzyme-Embedded Biodegradable Plastic for Sustainable Applications: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives
School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden School of Engineering ...
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Directed evolution of the rRNA methylating enzyme Cfr reveals molecular basis of antibiotic resistance
The paper addresses an important unresolved mechanism of antibiotic resistance caused by a RNA-modifying enzyme Cfr, a protein that confers resistance to multiple ribosome-targeting antibiotics due to ...
Frontiers3y
Recent Advances on Sorting Methods of High-Throughput Droplet-Based Microfluidics in Enzyme Directed Evolution
A significantly improved rate of 120 cells/min and two variants of an unknown enzyme [algal diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs)] were discovered by applying this RADS setup (Wang et al., 2020). A ...