Science Daily

Your roommate’s genes may be shaping your gut bacteria

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...
ZME Science

How Life Solved Its “Impossible” Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn’t Need a Miracle to Appear

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Scientists Just Rewrote an 80-Year-Old Law of Biology

A combination of two classical biological laws, the global constraint principle delves deeper into complex biological ...

Genetic influences on health can ripple through social groups via shared microbes

Your "roommate's" genes could be influencing the bacteria living in your gut, and vice versa, according to a study of rats ...
C&EN

Functional and Promiscuity Studies of Three-Residue Cyclophane Forming Enzymes Show Nonnative C–C Cross-Linked Products and Leader-Dependent Cyclization

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Chemistry World

Protein design takes big leap forward as model produces enzymes almost as effective as nature’s

‘Enzymes are the workhorses of life,’ says Carlos Acevedo-Rocha, a senior researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, who was not involved with developing the new model. ‘They catalyse complex ...
The New York Times

Hamilton O. Smith, Who Made a Biotech Breakthrough, Is Dead at 94

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and medicine, like insulin. By Delthia Ricks Hamilton O. Smith, who transformed ...