Cannabis has been part of human culture for thousands of years, yet the molecular machinery that gives the plant its ...

Scientists have discovered that blocking a key cellular enzyme thought to protect against fatty liver disease may instead ...

A team has used neutron crystallography to image all of the atoms in a radical intermediate of a copper amine oxidase enzyme. They disclosed previously unknown details, such as precise conformational ...

Sea cucumbers scrub the seafloor. Soon, they might scrub out cancer. A team of researchers from the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, and Georgetown University has discovered a sugar compound in ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dec. 12, 2025 — Biochemistry students at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will showcase their research and persuasive skills during the annual “My Enzyme ...

Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford University have illuminated one of the great mysteries of life – how enzymes are ...

The general aim of the major is to ensure that the students first learn the necessary chemical and physical chemical background and then the basic principles and observations of biochemistry and ...

Skatole is an infamously smelly molecule that, in some anaerobic bacteria, is synthesized from ʟ-tryptophan in a four-step process. Now, researchers have found that certain aerobic bacteria only need ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. The team proposes that SAM plays a dual role in the reaction. It donates a methyl group to the enzyme’s cobalamin cofactor and then serves as a base when ...

The Biochemistry major is designed to equip students with a broad understanding of the chemical and molecular events involved in biological processes. The Biochemistry major provides a foundation for ...