A new microscopy method enables researchers to visualize the activity of the enzymes caspase-3 and alkaline phosphatase in various biological samples (Nat. Methods 2024, DOI: ...

The world around you contains hidden universes of breathtaking complexity and alien beauty. Every grain of salt, every strand of hair, and every drop of pond water harbors microscopic landscapes that ...

Spirulina under a microscope. Lumen Bioscience researchers engineered spirulina to biomanufacture a natural enzyme that they've shown destroys methanogens, the microbes in cows' rumen that produces ...

Bacteria have colonized nearly everything on the planet, and can be found in virtually any environment, including inside the human body. Oxygen is generally thought to be essential to support life, ...

The first full-length structures of the human angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) have been determined by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM).

In the foreground, a 3D atomic model of ExoN is on the left, and a depiction of how ExoN recognizes the nucleotide analog antiviral sofosbuvir is on the right. Images of ExoN particles captured by ...