A compost bacterium produced CCPUR1, the strongest enzyme yet found for breaking down polyurethane and nylon plastic.

In the ocean, plastic waste collects to form large garbage patches that endanger marine life. This is partly because the ...

Researchers demonstrate the implementation of a remote laboratory activity to teach students about enzyme kinetics. The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers across the globe to embrace remote learning.

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes ...

Researchers identified an enzyme that degrades certain polyesters and inactivates penicillin, suggesting microbes may adapt ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers across the globe to embrace remote learning. Although adapting existing materials was relatively easy for lecture-based courses that revolved around theory, ...

(Nanowerk News) By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance of ...

Just because an enzyme has an active site doesn’t mean the rest of the enzyme should be disregarded, as though it were so much dead weight. It influences enzyme function, if only by keeping the enzyme ...

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DNA normally uses four letters. In lab tests, a bacterial enzyme successfully read eight, including four synthetic bases.