Tag: enzymes

  • Nation & World

    Vaginal bacteria must eat to survive — but how?

    Chemical analysis brings understudied microbiome into sharper focus.

    4 minutes
    Close-up shot bacteria in petri dish.
  • Nation & World

    The ‘right’ diet

    Professor Emily Balskus and her team have identified an entirely new class of enzymes that degrade chemicals essential for neurological health, but also help digest foods like nuts, berries, and tea, releasing nutrients that may impact human health.

    4 minutes
    Spoon with pomogranate seeds.
  • Nation & World

    Negative plus

    Led by Professor David Liu, a team of researchers has developed a technique to continuously evolve biomolecules that uses negative selection — the ability to drive evolution away from certain traits — to create molecules with dramatically altered properties.

    4 minutes