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 ...

Enzymes significantly speed up the chemical reactions that keep you alive. Researchers are using AI to create new ones to tackle modern challenges.

Skatole is an infamously smelly molecule that, in some anaerobic bacteria, is synthesized from ʟ-tryptophan in a four-step ...

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

Stanford researchers have illuminated how enzymes are able speed up life-sustaining biochemical reactions so dramatically. Their discoveries could impact fields ranging from basic science to drug ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the attention of scientists like me.

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 ...

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Enzyme mechanisms are the chemical transformations, and the steps within them, generated by enzymatic action on substrates. The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types ...

pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. The diagram below shows what happens to an enzyme when denaturation occurs. Each enzyme has an optimum pH but it also has a working range ...