Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells ...

Carbohydrate chains, or glycans, are complex sugar-like compounds that play important roles in various biological processes and structures in our bodies.

Working in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, scientists at the University of ...

A new University of Maryland study has revealed a coordinated dance of microscopic particles—breaking up and clustering back ...

A new study by Professor Ludmilla Aristilde found that minerals drive phosphorus release at enzyme-like rates.

Digestive enzymes, for instance, belong to the hydrolase category and help break down foods to make them more easily absorbed throughout the body. There's also metabolic enzymes, which belong to the ...

In the bacterium M. smegmatis, an enzyme called MftG allows the the cofactor mycofactocin to transfers electrons released during ethanol metabolism to the electron transport chain.

Feb. 26, 2025 — New research offers insights that could help reduce the amount of radioactive tritium embedded in the walls of fusion vessels to a ... New Method Developed to Dramatically ...

From the thermodynamic point of view, the water splitting reaction is an endergonic process. However, this non-spontaneous reaction can be done by providing external energy to the system, such as ...

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