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Pfizer and 90% of cheese: The enzyme nobody sees

Cheese is one of the few foods that can start a family argument without anyone leaving the kitchen and lately, it has managed ...
A hidden enzyme developed by big pharma has taken over the dairy industry, sparking a nationwide boycott as consumers demand ...
Roasted coffee may do more than wake you up—it could help control blood sugar. Researchers discovered several new coffee ...
UB researchers have identified for the first time an enzyme in the foxglove plant that is responsible for the production of compounds needed to make the heart failure drug digoxin. The breakthrough ...
Enzymes are crucial for speeding up slow chemical reactions. Anyone who has worked in a genetics lab is familiar with a common enzyme called Taq polymerase, because it's a reliable workhorse that can ...
Just because an enzyme has an active site doesn’t mean the rest of the enzyme should be disregarded, as though it were so much dead weight. It influences enzyme function, if only by keeping the enzyme ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...
Tarun Kapoor is tackling a deceptively tricky biochemical challenge: how to speed up the internal machinery of living cells.