Zinc is an essential trace element that controls myriad biological processes. The delicate balance of its concentration in ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

Whenever there is a wound or infection, the body produces an inflammatory response. This is the body's first line of defense, ...

In the past several years, Rockefeller University's Kivanç Birsoy and his team in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics have revealed remarkable details about the antioxidant glutathione ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Proteins are vital for life, involved in virtually every biochemical process that makes life possible. They comprise one or more amino acid chains ...

Protein engineering is a powerful biotechnological process that focuses on creating new enzymes or proteins and improving the functions of existing ones by manipulating their natural macromolecular ...

Researchers discover that the protein Adgrl2 uses alternative splicing to switch between building brain synapses and sealing ...

"I knew I wanted to work with RuBisCO, but when I left Eat Just, there wasn't a supply chain for it," says Udi Lazimy at Fudi ...

"Hi, my name is John." "Nice to meet you...what was it again?" Ok, that might be an extreme example of forgetting, but it's not far from the truth; I've forgotten someone's name in a matter of seconds ...