Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ...

Uruguayan scientists have transformed an enzyme from Antarctica into an active ingredient for younger, healthier skin.

An AI-driven computational toolkit, Gcoupler, integrates ligand design, statistical modeling, and graph neural networks to predict endogenous metabolites that allosterically modulate the GPCR–Gα ...

Quantum physics is usually associated with particle colliders and vacuum chambers, not with the proteins quietly shuttling ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about why soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the U.S., contributes to significant weight gain in mice.

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

An enzyme found in papaya could lead to new medicines: a scientific review reveals the surprising pharmaceutical potential of ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

The Liu lab is using a first-of-its-kind platform to reveal how the enzyme that turns DNA (violet) into RNA (red) controls ...