Nitrilases are a unique class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of nitrile compounds to yield the corresponding carboxylic acids or amides. Their application in biotransformation processes has ...

Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution. To illustrate the ...

NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATUM, a pioneer in bioengineering solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued patent numbers 11,060,098, ...

Researchers employ landscape profiling to identify an efficient biocatalyst for recycling polyethylene terephthalate DAEGU, South Korea, Jan. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Polyethylene terephthalate is one ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most widely used plastics, commonly found in bottles, fibers, and many other products. It is a unique member of the plastic family as it can be broken ...

(Nanowerk News) Enzymes are substances that cause chemical reactions. Certain types of enzymes, such as polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases, have the ability to shuffle their ...

Enzymes accelerate reactions by helping to lower the activation energy needed to start them. But how enzymes achieve this has been the subject of intense debate. A research team from Texas and China ...

Jason Boock and Jason Berberich, both professors of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering at Miami University, are researching methods to produce an enzyme that has large potential to change how ...

The global enzymes market is entering a phase of steady, innovation-led expansion, supported by rising adoption across food ...

In a new study published in Nature titled, “Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering and machine learning,” researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical ...