A roti, sabzi and a little bowl of rice is a simple home cooked lunch that you take. No epacmiums, no massiness. However, in 30 minutes, you begin to feel uncomfortable in your stomach. It feels ...

Imagine trying to bake a cake without heat. You’ve got all the ingredients like flour, eggs and sugar, but nothing is happening. That’s what your body would be like without enzymes: potential but no ...

Food goes on a long, complex journey through your body before becoming poo. Each part of the digestive system plays a special role in breaking it down.

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on experiments to perfect them. The resulting enzymes catalyse a chemical ...

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans. Axolotls are native to Mexico and critically endangered in their ...

That problem is why, even though we’ve had success finding enzymes that break down common plastics like polyesters and PET, they’re only partial solutions to plastic waste. However, researchers aren’t ...