Researchers study evolution on the molecular level
The theory of evolution suggests that present-day organisms evolved from earlier life forms.
Biochemistry
Dec 13, 2013
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Chemists discover structure of bacterial enzyme that generates useful polymers
MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an advance that could help chemical engineers tweak the enzyme to make it even more industrially useful.
Polymers
Nov 11, 2016
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Chemists report nicotine-chomping bacteria may hold key to anti-smoking therapy
A new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) explores a bacterial enzyme that might be used as a drug candidate to help people quit smoking. The research shows that this enzyme can be recreated in ...
Biochemistry
Aug 6, 2015
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Safer CRISPR gene editing with fewer off-target hits
The CRISPR system is a powerful tool for the targeted editing of genomes, with significant therapeutic potential, but runs the risk of inappropriately editing "off-target" sites. However, a new study publishing July 9, 2020 ...
Biotechnology
Jul 9, 2020
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How the newest diesel engines emit very little greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
(Phys.org) —The newest catalytic converters in diesel engines blast away a pollutant from combustion with the help of ammonia. Common in European cars, the engines exhaust harmless nitrogen and water. How they do this hasn't ...
Materials Science
Sep 10, 2013
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Powerful gene-editing tool appears to cause off-target mutations in human cells
In the past year a group of synthetic proteins called CRISPR-Cas RNA-guided nucleases (RGNs) have generated great excitement in the scientific community as gene-editing tools. Exploiting a method that some bacteria use to ...
Biotechnology
Jun 23, 2013
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Programmable DNA scissors found for bacterial immune system
(Phys.org) -- Genetic engineers and genomics researchers should welcome the news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) where an international team of scientists has discovered a new and possibly more ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2012
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How bacterial cell recognizes its own DNA
It may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that bacteria have an immune system - in their case to fight off invasive viruses called phages. And like any immune system - from single-celled to human - the first challenge of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 13, 2015
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Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production
Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...
Biochemistry
Feb 24, 2009
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Study finds new moves in protein's evolution
Highlighting an important but unexplored area of evolution, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found evidence that, over hundreds of millions of years, an essential protein has evolved chiefly by changing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2013
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