Life has evolved over billions of years, adapting to the changing environment. Similarly, enzymes—proteins that speed up ...

Enzymes are substances in the body that cause and speed up crucial chemical reactions. Enzymes’ function is to help trigger bodily processes ranging from digestion to blood clotting to growth ...

Changes in temperature or acidity can make enzyme reactions go faster or slower. Enzymes work best under certain conditions, and enzyme activity will slow down if conditions are not ideal. For example ...

How did your work unfold? In 2017, we were developing a set of inhibitors for the OGG1 enzyme. During my time as a postdoc, I had stumbled over a molecule in the literature that was claimed to be ...

Welcome to the wonderful world of enzymes! Do you know what your liver's good for? Not really. What your liver's good for… is for breaking down stuff. I'm going to show you how that works.

Enzymes have active sites which only match specific substrates. The diagram shows how this works. In this example, the enzyme splits one molecule into two smaller ones, but other enzymes join ...