New research shows how engineered enzymes and cell-free systems can be combined to recycle CO2 into Acetyl-CoA and other ...

Phase separation guarantees distribution of cell components Researchers at the laboratory of Lucas Pelkmans, professor at the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Zurich (UZH), ...

The brain has the ability to modify the contacts between neurons. Among other things, that is how it prevents brain activity from getting out of control. Researchers have now identified a mechanism ...

CCA-adding enzymes are specialised RNA polymerases responsible for the post-transcriptional addition of the invariant CCA trinucleotide to the 3′ end of transfer RNAs (tRNAs), a critical step ensuring ...

A security-type control system with a password made up of enzymes rather than numbers or letters has been devised by Evgeny Katz and coworkers at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. This type of ...

It is well known in physics and chemistry that equal charges repel each other, while opposite charges attract. It was long assumed that this principle also applies when enzymes – the biological ...

Almost 100 billion nerve cells perform their service in the human brain. Each of these has an average of 1,000 contacts with other neurons. At these so-called synapses, information is passed on ...