Scientists have created a new enzyme which can break down plastics that typically take decades or centuries to degrade within a matter of days or even hours. The team of researchers, including those ...

Engineers have developed a new way to produce tagatose, a low-calorie sugar, using engineered bacteria and cheap glucose ...

Scientists have uncovered how cannabis evolved the ability to make its most famous compounds—THC, CBD, and CBC—by recreating ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

The research team identified an enzyme called SCoR2 that removes nitric oxide from proteins that control fat buildup in the ...

New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed how puppetry and other creative methods can effectively make complex scientific topics, such as plastic recycling, more understandable and ...

Using a technique called ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR), researchers at Wageningen University & Research in the ...

Cannabis produces a complex suite of bioactive compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), but how ...

Cannabis has been part of human culture for thousands of years, yet the molecular machinery that gives the plant its ...

Matching blood types from donor to recipient is one of the major problems in organ donation. Now, a team of researchers in Canada has developed an enzyme treatment to convert donated organs to the ...

New research shows how engineered enzymes and cell-free systems can be combined to recycle CO2 into Acetyl-CoA and other ...