Few drug classes in modern cardiology have generated as much astonishment as the sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, ...

Sarah O'Connor, head of the Natural Product Biosynthesis Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, has been researching this biosynthetic pathway for over 15 years. "Enzymes ...

Colorectal cancer remains one of the most common and lethal malignancies worldwide, and while immune checkpoint inhibitors ...

Biochemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new subclass of trifunctional enzymes in gram-positive bacteria, which play a critical role in the biosynthesis of an ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is often viewed through the lens of hepatic lipid accumulation, ...

A team of investigators co-led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University has identified an enzyme that helps prevent the ...

In high school biology, enzymes are introduced as "biological catalysts that accelerate chemical reactions."However, enzyme research at the university level goes far beyond that.Observing the ...

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines against malaria, a tropical fever caused by single-celled parasites of the genus ...

A group of innate immune cells, known as group 2 lymphoid cells (ILC2), are essential for maintaining a stable metabolism in adipose tissue. Obesity significantly impairs the number and function of ...