A team of scientists has taken a closer look at the origins of cannabis chemistry by reconstructing enzymes from ancient ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

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

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Genetic engineering has brought us revolutionary advances in medicine, biotechnology, and our understanding of life itself. However, the precise manipulation of DNA sequences has ...

Scientists have uncovered how cannabis evolved the ability to make its most famous compounds—THC, CBD, and CBC—by recreating ...

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

An INRS team discovers a new family of enzymes capable of inducing targeted cuts in single-stranded DNA . A few years ago, the advent of technology known as CRISPR was a major breakthrough in the ...

University researchers developed a new ligase, an enzyme that joins together strands of DNA or RNA and has applications in biotechnology and diagnostics, as described in an Oct. 7 paper in RNA Biology ...

Promega files patent for first-of-its-kind enzyme that minimizes stutter artifacts in STR analysis Reduced stutter polymerase enhances accuracy, efficiency and reliability of DNA profiling in forensic ...