Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the U. of I., the team reported its findings in the ...

Restriction enzymes are essential tools for recombinant DNA technology that have revolutionized modern biological research; however, they have limited sequence specificity and availability. The ...

Scientists first observed the biological phenomenon of restriction and modification in the 1950s, but they did not identify and isolate restriction enzymes until the late 1960s. 3 In 1970, Hamilton ...

The Carbohydrate-Active enZYme (CAZymes) classification system is a database that contains the knowledge of enzymes that are involved in the formation and break down of complex carbohydrates and ...

The modulation of enzymatic activity by a protein cofactor may be accomplished in several ways, as illustrated by two new structures. Serine proteases are intimately involved in regulating the process ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...