Salt, microplastics, and rising temperatures are silently degrading urban soil health, and weakening the resilience of cities ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection.

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection.

A new study confirms this long-held theory, discovering that 60 percent of defective genetic pairs impacting the production ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

The paradigm in nutritional science is shifting from studying isolated nutrients to understanding the complex food matrix.

Triterpenoid saponins are widely valued for their diverse pharmacological activities and also play important defensive roles ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely used to treat a range of infections, including pneumonia and skin ...

Macrolide antibiotics like azithromycin rely on a complex ring structure that’s powerful but notoriously hard to control.  Researchers have uncovered how bacterial enzymes shape this ring during the ...