Every researcher knows the frustration: your groundbreaking experiment is on hold because the DNA sequence you need is "unmanufacturable". Or worse, after weeks of waiting, the oligos arrive with ...

Enzymes speed up chemical reactions in your body, such as digestion. Not having enough of a specific enzyme can lead to health problems, sometimes serious. Eating a healthy diet helps support your ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. Approaches for cleaving all-carbon polymer backbones often rely ...

Scientists discovered that alcohol activates a sugar-producing pathway in the body, creating fructose that may reinforce addictive drinking. The enzyme responsible, KHK, appears to drive both alcohol ...

When you’re one of the 70 million Americans whose digestion is off, it’s understandable to want to do what you can to turn things around quickly. Social media is packed with posts from people who ...

Glu-OCN is secreted by osteoblasts and then undergoes γ-carboxylation at glutamic acid residues at positions 17, 21, and 24, a reaction catalyzed by γ-glutamyl carboxylase (GGCX) in a vitamin ...

MIT gave photosynthesis a boost by evolving rubisco to work faster, raising hopes for higher crop yields and more efficient plants. Credit: SciTechDaily.com MIT scientists have reengineered rubisco, ...

Department of Health Sciences, College of Natural and Health Sciences, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin essential in various physiological functions ...

Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge evolution technique in living cells. Normally prone to wasteful reactions ...

Plastic’s toughest problem may have just met its smartest solution. A team of scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and the ...