Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) represents a transformative technology in which the molecular machinery of transcription and translation is extracted from living cells and employed in a controlled ...

A principle of DNA synthesis that has dominated biology textbooks for decades could be upended. An enzyme has been discovered ...

A research team led by Prof. XU Zhiheng from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified Tapt1, together with its partner Suco, as important ...

As far as research subjects go, it's not always easy to find common ground with a single-celled bacterium. Yet the more Paul Wiggins studies his model bacteria, Acinetobacter baylyi, the more he sees ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

A (L398I), B (L509I), and C (T338S), controlling chemo-/regio-selectivity of CYP72A63 for rare licorice triterpenoids production [83]; D, rational design of CYP87D20 with evolutionary information for ...

For Michael Chen, the path from academia to biotech entrepreneurship began with a protein that refused to cooperate. His laboratory struggles, coupled with those of his fellow classmates, became the ...