Many chemical reactions require the input of energy to activate the transformation. This can often be in the form of heat, or chemical energy. One of the most efficient ways of introducing energy into ...

Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers, key functional components of many drugs, foods, ...

A new critical review maps how light-activated photonanozymes are engineered, what they can catalyze, and the hurdles ...

In biology, a group of enzymes called 2-oxoglutarate-dependent oxygenases is responsible for catalyzing a wide range of ...

January 3, 2026We cover the development of methanol-utilizing bacteria in China and the improvement of nitrilase by researchers in China and Poland. Through these two developments confirmed during the ...

Aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase) catalyzes the second step of the de novo pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway and produces N-carbamoyl-l-aspartate (CA) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) from carbamoyl ...

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, ...

A new study shows that sugar-based chemical interactions, rather than molecular crowding size, help the glycolytic enzyme ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford and international collaborators have revealed previously unseen rapid chemical ...

Researchers used XFEL technology to observe the enzyme isopenicillin N synthase as it converts its linear peptide substrate into the ring system of penicillin.

A new enzyme-inspired, small-molecule catalyst developed at the University of Illinois holds alcohols and alkenes in just the right proximity and position to join into ethers, key functional ...