On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

A recent scientific breakthrough has emerged from the work of researchers aiming to combat SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. The study focuses on the design and development of a novel ...

Proteins are life's molecular workhorses, doing everything from turning sunlight into food to fighting viruses. They are built from 20 different types of amino acid molecules, so even a small protein ...

Enzymes in laundry detergents, insulin for diabetes, and the antibodies and enzymes used in medicine: all of these exist thanks to protein science and engineering. Protein engineering has transformed ...

It has long been thought that protein function and stability are highly sensitive to changes in the composition of the internal structures, or protein cores. However, a large-scale experiment probing ...

A (L398I), B (L509I), and C (T338S), controlling chemo-/regio-selectivity of CYP72A63 for rare licorice triterpenoids production [83]; D, rational design of CYP87D20 with evolutionary information for ...