A team of scientists has taken a closer look at the origins of cannabis chemistry by reconstructing enzymes from ancient ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

A new family of enzymes enables precise cuts in single-stranded DNA, offering powerful new tools for genetic engineering and expanding possibilities in biotechnology. (Nanowerk News) A few years ago, ...

Cannabis is a talented plant, hiding a pharmacopeia in its flowers and foliage. Many of its compounds evolved millions of ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Genetic engineering has brought us revolutionary advances in medicine, biotechnology, and our understanding of life itself. However, the precise manipulation of DNA sequences has ...

An INRS team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA . A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

Promega files patent for first-of-its-kind enzyme that minimizes stutter artifacts in STR analysis Reduced stutter polymerase enhances accuracy, efficiency and reliability of DNA profiling in forensic ...

University researchers developed a new ligase, an enzyme that joins together strands of DNA or RNA and has applications in biotechnology and diagnostics, as described in an Oct. 7 paper in RNA Biology ...

Researchers use cryo-EM and optical tweezers to investigate how an antiviral interacts with the herpes simplex virus.