Dr. Xuejun Zhu, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded a Welch Foundation grant to help uncover and characterize enzymes ...

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

A new artificial intelligence tool can predict the functions of enzymes based on their amino acid sequences, even when the enzymes are unstudied or poorly understood. Researchers said the AI tool, ...

Enzymes, which are crucial to controlling how cells replicate in the human body, could be the very ingredient that encourages DNA to spontaneously mutate -- causing potentially permanent genetic ...

Visual representations of the chitinase surface and secondary structures. New findings about chitinases, enzymes found naturally in plants, could allow farmers to address fungal infections sooner and ...

In various European countries and North America, medical cannabis or medicines based on cannabinoids are authorized for therapeutic purposes. While the cannabis plant contains over 100 cannabinoids, ...

MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecovyst Inc. (NYSE: ECVT), a leading integrated and innovative global provider of advanced materials, specialty catalysts, sulfuric acid and regeneration ...

Light to fuel: clean hydrogen production. Improved understanding of the light-driven production of hydrogen holds the promise not just to make the reaction more efficient in producing a fuel, but also ...

For much of nutrition science history, trace minerals were discussed almost exclusively in the context of deficiency diseases ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive virtually every chemical reaction in our cells. For decades, scientists have ...