Frances Arnold on directed enzyme evolution: random mutation plus smart screening, and why it changed enzyme engineering and ...

Cells are crowded, dynamic places where thousands of molecules interact in tight quarters. Until now, scientists lacked a reliable way to see many of these molecular interactions as they happen.

Blue laundry detergents use optical brighteners to make clothes appear brighter. These compounds absorb ultraviolet light and ...

A Nigerian doctoral researcher, Oluwasegun John Olubisi, has presented his work on cover crop systems and soil nutrient ...

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Professor Carol-Ann Benn, who heads the multidisciplinary breast cancer centre at Netcare Milpark Hospital, says patients ...

In most modern cells, DNA stores the genetic blueprint, and proteins replicate, repair and build from those blueprints. At ...

A research team at Marburg University has investigated one of the largest enzyme complexes found in nature to date and ...

A ribozyme found by accident selectively repairs broken RNA, suggesting early life could have preserved its genetic code ...

The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing ...

DZNE researchers have uncovered a mechanism that determines why a neuron usually forms a single, long extension called an ...