Knee cartilage usually wears down quietly. Over time, that loss can turn walking stairs into a daily calculation. Now a ...

Researchers have captured real-time "molecular movies" showing how an enzyme changes shape during catalysis. The study was published in Nature Communications.

Enzymes are proteins that guide (catalyze) very specific chemical reactions. They play indispensable roles in all life forms. Some enzymes carry out the day-to-day business of biology like digesting ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Researchers at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University have discovered an enzyme that ...

Scientists have developed a novel approach to modifying enzymes to improve functionality. They designed a new algorithm to make multiple changes to an enzyme sequence at once as compared to the ...

Obesity is a global epidemic and a major cause of morbidity and mortality because it increases the risk for comorbidities, ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say results of a new National Institutes of Health-funded study are advancing efforts to ...

In nature, evolution takes years to sculpt new traits. In the lab, scientists hope to achieve this feat much faster: Being able to evolve proteins with enhanced or novel functions has important ...

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material ...

Connecticut-based company partners with laboratories to explore how enzymes can break down plastic and textile scrap to make new resins. Protein Evolution says its technique can create rPET resin “is ...