Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and ...

Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and function. Enzymes play a ...

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

A team of researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California has developed a microrobot for drug delivery ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown enzyme that plays a crucial role in fat production. By blocking it, they stopped weight gain, reduced liver damage, and lowered harmful cholesterol ...

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl group (C=O) to a nitrogen atom. They're so ubiquitous that 117 of the top ...

Chemical structure of imatinib, a precision cancer drug containing an amide bond. Xiaoguang Lei and his team used their engineered enzyme to streamline the synthesis of imatinib, a landmark cancer ...