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 ...

An analysis of an unusual enzyme could result in a new generation of antimicrobial medicines to counter antibiotic resistance ...

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 ...