A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl ...

Spreading lime on an Dales dillower meadow to increase the soils fertility. Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photo by: Farm Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A new U.K. trial has started to speed ...

If the household cleaner emits a lemon-like odour, this may be due to a nitrile called citronellyl nitrile. These versatile chemical nitrile groups are also used in the manufacture of active ...

BOSTON, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensovi Inc., which has invented an efficient, cell-free biomanufacturing platform that transforms waste CO2 to organic chemicals, today announced a new ...

Healthy cells are constantly breaking down proteins and building up new ones with the help of enzymes aptly named unfoldases, because they unravel proteins tagged for destruction or recycling. Now, a ...

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. The anti-cancer molecule salinosporamide A, also called Marizomb, is in Phase III clinical ...

BOSTON, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ensovi Inc., which has invented an efficient, cell-free biomanufacturing platform that transforms waste CO 2 to organic chemicals, today announced a new ...

It’s clear that we can no longer avoid the impacts of climate change — we’re already experiencing the economic, societal, and ecosystem impacts of extreme weather events, rising temperatures, and ...

Part of the complex process that turns raw materials into finished products like detergents, cosmetics and flavors relies on enzymes, which facilitate chemical transformations. But finding the right ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...