Ever wondered what your liver was for? Worth looking after it! Enzymes! There are tens of thousands of chemical reactions going on inside our bodies all the time. I'm at a farmers' market in Edinburgh ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London's School of Biological and Behavioral Sciences, using the simple fission yeast as a model, have shown that the new TOR inhibitor rapalink-1 prolongs ...

Epigenetic drug discovery and development programs have attracted much attention and investment in recent years. This is driven by the potential to develop novel therapeutic strategies that can ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired target, helping them find the best enzyme and substrate combination for applications ...

Understanding how antibiotic scaffolds are constructed in nature can help scientists prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome mining. Researchers have used this ...

Post-translational modifications of histones, the major protein components of chromatin, provide the mechanistic underpinning for epigenetic regulation of gene transcription. Among the enzymes that ...