Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and ...

Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and function. Enzymes play a ...

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

A team of researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California has developed a microrobot for drug delivery ...

Everyone’s chasing “glass” (read: nearly poreless, because pores don’t actually disappear, despite what you’ve been told) skin that’s smooth, reflective, and impossibly even. What’s often left out of ...

Recently published in Nature Communications, the NASA-funded study uses synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern enzymes and rebuild their possible ancestors. Betül Kaçar, a professor of ...

This study evaluated the biological importance of immobilized urease enzyme over the free urease. The support material used for urease immobilization was alginate. Generally, the immobilization of ...

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world's simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living ...

For more than a century, concrete has been the foundation of our modern civilization’s infrastructure with a stoic permanence. But that strength comes at a cost. Concrete, and the cement that binds it ...