A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the scientific world. Developed from a ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified a small molecule, PZL-A, that restores function in the defective ...

Similarly, enzymes—proteins that speed up biochemical reactions (catalysis) in cells—have adapted to the habitats of their host organisms ... enzymes adapted to function in harsh conditions.

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

"We demonstrated that they are able to recognize and specifically cut their own single-stranded DNA sequence. Thousands of enzymes therefore have this property with their own specificity," adds ...

DNA is often seen as the blueprint of life—carrying the code to govern the development and traits of an organism—but “there ...

The evolution of low-temperature adapted enzymes Scientists uncover how enzymes evolved to function at low temperatures by reconstructing prehistoric proteins from extinct bacteria Date: March 25 ...

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) ...