The fusion of two cells is a decisive event in the sexual reproduction of many organisms. In fungi, cells must not only bring ...

Data from mouse brains and 13 human brains show a link between levels of a lipid-degrading and cognitive resilience, ...

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject ...

Scientists have long used a powerful gene-editing tool called CRISPR to make precise changes to DNA. But a different version ...

Man enzyme” that helps bacteria devour certain types of plastic and may offer new hope in the fight against plastic pollution ...

Anthropic's Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR. Here is what it found and what remains unknown.

From a rigid molecular pair to flexible assemblies with moving domains, the enzymes that build sugar chains display ...

A joint research group led by Ryo Tanifuji and Hiroki Oguri from the University of Tokyo and Yoshikazu Tanaka from Tohoku ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have identified an enzyme capable of breaking down certain plastics and penicillin, ...