Scientists from the University of Portsmouth and the University of Manchester say they have developed a fusion enzyme that ...

In a new study, scientists from the universities of Portsmouth and Manchester report that a specially engineered enzyme can significantly speed up the breakdown of PET—the plastic used in water ...

How can we know what life on Earth looked like more than three billion years ago, when rocks from that era are so rare and difficult to exploit? To answer this question, researchers have adopted ...

Microbes in our gut produce enzymes that help with our metabolism and influence our health. For example, bile salt hydrolases (BSHs) cleave parts of bile acids, leading to the formation of secondary ...

Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms. They are essential for life, as they play a crucial role in various biological processes, such as digestion, ...