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

For over 350 years, quinine and other extracts from the cinchona tree (Cinchona spp.) were the only effective medicines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The kidney, pre-transplant, in a perfusion device which is used to circulate a solution that contains the converting enzymes.

Spreading lime on an Dales dillower meadow to increase the soils fertility. Yorkshire Dales, UK. (Photo by: Farm Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A new U.K. trial has started to speed ...

Years of toil in the laboratory have revealed how a marine bacterium makes a potent anti-cancer molecule. The anti-cancer molecule salinosporamide A, also called Marizomb, is in Phase III clinical ...

German biotech company e-LEcta reveals that a “successful cooperation” with an unnamed sweetener supplier has enabled it to expand production of a zero-calorie, plant-based sweetener in a move that it ...

Of the 10 billion metric tons of plastic that humans have produced so far, only a small fraction has been recycled. Most of it sits in landfills or in the environment, where it could take centuries to ...

Plastics can take hundreds of years to naturally degrade in the environment, something this new combination of enzymes can accomplish in a matter of days. Photo by Fachrul Reza/NurPhoto via Getty ...

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 ...

Clascoterone (cortexolone 17α-propionate) is a first-in-class topical anti-androgen approved in 2020 for the treatment of acne in patients aged 12 years and older. It works by blocking androgen ...