The science of enzymes. The possibilities they create.
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A firefly enzyme can make the same chemical substrate yield a different colour of light. The clue lies in the environment of a short-lived emitter, and in a distinction between changing a wavelength and changing a mixture.
Read the storyHydrogen is scarce in air and oxygen is abundant. The soil bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis has an enzyme that can pick out the former without being…
An enzyme can make ordinary milk taste sweeter by breaking a bond in sugar that is already there. What the tongue notices, what the label…
Ultraviolet light can weld neighbouring DNA letters together. In many organisms, photolyase uses a second photon to separate them again without replacing either letter.
A familiar laboratory enzyme began as bacterial defence. EcoRI’s precise cuts helped make DNA cloning possible, carrying a Nobel-linked scientific revolution into an ordinary freezer…
A familiar enzyme that removes RNA from DNA samples once revealed how a protein finds its working shape. RNase A’s small structure carries an unusually…
Before many RNA tests can give an answer, an enzyme makes a DNA copy. Meet reverse transcriptase, the discovery that helped reshape virology and became…
How enzymes work, evolve and assemble—and what their structures reveal.
Enzymes in disease, diagnostics and treatment, with the evidence and its limits.
Enzymes in plastic recycling, carbon conversion and the living environment.
Enzymes at work in food, materials and chemical manufacturing.
The models, databases and laboratory tools helping researchers understand and design enzymes.
A metabolic enzyme builds triangles within triangles, revealing an unexpected form of molecular self-assembly.
A curated database connects plastic-degrading enzymes with the experimental evidence behind them.
Deep learning and laboratory testing come together in the search for more heat-tolerant enzymes.
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What did the researchers find? How did they test it? And what remains uncertain? EnzymeNews follows enzyme research from molecular mechanisms to practical applications, with links back to the evidence.
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