Enzymes help with specific functions that are vital to the operation and overall health of the human body. They help speed up chemical reactions and are essential for respiration, digestion, muscle ...

As researchers look for ways to develop and improve everyday products ranging from fuel to medicines, enzymes provide nature's example of the control needed to make chemical reactions work in desired ...

It is well known in physics and chemistry that equal charges repel each other, while opposite charges attract. It was long assumed that this principle also applies when enzymes – the biological ...

Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and ...

This breakthrough means that custom enzymes for almost any chemical reaction could, in principle, be designed," said Yeh. New enzymes could benefit biotechnology, medicine, environmental remediation, ...

Reactions that can combine more than two molecular pieces in one go are a powerful way to build complexity quickly and save on costly isolation and purification. But the choreography for such a ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new structure determination method using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy which shows how different parts of complex ...

A startup company called Zymosense is developing and marketing nanosensors invented in Nigel Reuel's Iowa State lab. The new tools will help industries track and improve the enzymes used in ...

Scott Nelson, left, and Nathaniel Kallmyer work in the laboratory of Zymosense, a startup company based in the Iowa State University Research Park. AMES, Iowa – The website video shows a carbon ...