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

Since most reactions in your body’s cells need special enzymes, each cell contains thousands of different enzymes. Enzymes let chemical reactions in the body happen millions of times faster than ...

MIT scientists used light to control how a starfish egg cell jiggles and moves during its earliest stage of development.

Enzymes, the core catalysts in life, drive critical biological processes ranging from metabolic regulation to energy ...

The study, titled "A family of bacterial Josephin-like deubiquitinases with an irreversible cleavage mode," conducted by the Cologne research team led by Professor Kay Hofmann, has been published in ...

or enzyme activation, respectively. Because membrane receptors interact with both extracellular signals and molecules within the cell, they permit signaling molecules to affect cell function ...

These enzymes opened the path to a powerful research tool that scientists later used not only to sequence genomes, but also to create the first synthetic cell, two scientific research milestones ...

The researchers observed that light activated the enzyme, causing predictable cell movements. For example, specific light ...

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

MIT scientists have discovered a way to control the movements of starfish cells using light, which could have biomedical applications.