During the last 50 years, an abundance of data has been gathered on the function of lipids as a source of energy, as building blocks, and as signaling molecules in living systems. Lipid-signaling ...

Proteins control many physiological functions that are essential for living things in vivo. There are over 20,000 types of proteins in humans, and each protein plays a different role by interacting ...

Persistent bottlenecks in biocatalyst development can be alleviated through fully automated enzyme analysis. Enzymes—the biological catalysts that accelerate chemical reactions inside cells—play ...

A group of enzymes found in the human immune system could hold the key to treating a host of serious diseases. However, the similarities among the enzymes pose a problem. Drugs intended to target one ...