To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process ...

Researchers have introduced a proof-of-concept for a new class of antivirals that could be used against RNA viruses including ...

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in viral enzymes that could lead to novel treatments for diseases as diverse as COVID-19 and Ebola -- while also minimizing side effects and reducing the odds of ...

The foundation of enzyme kinetics has been shown to hold true ... course probably learned the Michaelis-Menten equation in class and then tested it in the laboratory with a classic enzymatic ...

This step had long remained a mystery in this class of enzymes, and the identification of these catalytic residues provides a critical piece of the puzzle, enhancing our understanding of how these ...

The arrival of Paxlovid in December 2021 marked another turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic-;an effective antiviral that has since successfully treated millions.

new treatment options to combat antibiotic resistance are urgently needed.” In the hunt for new antibiotic classes, antimicrobial peptides, also known as host defence peptides (HDP), represent ...

Class II Cas9 and Class V Cas12 are currently widely utilized as gene-editing tools. However, both the Cas9 and Cas12 nucleases show some tolerance for guide RNA (gRNA) and target site mismatches ...