Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

Chemists have long been fascinated and frustrated by saxitoxin: a molecule that causes temporary paralysis by blocking the ...

That’s the big idea behind Zymosense, “The Nanoassay Company,” a startup that’s spinning off technology developed in the lab ...

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Immobilized enzymes are enzymes that have been attached, either through adsorption or crosslinking, to a solid support for experimentation or industrial purposes; for example, generating large ...

Hydrolases are enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of a covalent bond using water. Types of hydrolase include esterases, such as phosphatases, that act on ester bonds, and proteases or peptidases that ...

Bacteria that produce many antibiotics use a surprising self-poisoning system to coordinate development. Sensing a key signal triggers a pathway creating toxic byproducts, but only those bacteria able ...