13-10-25 Just as our bodies have skeletons, so do our cells. They're equally indispensible（不可缺少的） in both cases. Without our bony skeletons we'd go limp and fall down. And without our cytoskeletons（细胞骨架） , our cells, which come in roughly 200 di...

13-07-04 University of Adelaide research has produced a potential new antibiotic which could help in the battle against bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The potential new antibiotic targets a bacterial enzyme critical to metabolic processes. The compound...

13-05-08 Enzymes could break down cell walls faster -- leading to less expensive biofuels for transportation -- if two enzyme systems are brought together in an industrial setting, new research by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory...

13-03-29 澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的一位教授最近在抗衰老药物研究方面取得突破性进展，人类想要长生不老的愿望或许终有一天会成为现实。 Man's search for immortality is another step closer to reality with a major breakthrough in creating a drug capable of fighting th...

13-03-22 The discovery of the Rosetta Stone resolved a longstanding puzzle, permitting the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs（象形文字） into Ancient Greek. John Chaput, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has been hunting for a...

12-11-23 Scientists have discovered an enzyme used in nature to make powerful chemicals from catnip（猫薄荷） to a cancer drug, vinblastine（长春花碱） . The discovery opens up the prospect of producing these chemicals cheaply and efficiently. They are produ...

12-11-05 Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) and the Ruhr-Universitt Bochum (RUB) have found through spectroscopic（光谱学的） investigations on a hydrogen-producing enzyme that the environment of the catalytic sit...

12-02-01 A team of researchers led by Michigan State University has discovered an overachieving plant enzyme that works both the day and night shifts. The discovery, featured in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, shows tha...

11-12-27 How sildenafil（昔多芬） , the active ingredient in Viagra, can alleviate（减轻，缓和） heart problems is reported by Bochum's researchers in cooperation with colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota) in the journal Circulation. They...

11-11-25 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ends by telomerase（端粒酶...