Led by Huimin Zhao, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the U. of I., the team reported its findings in the journal Nature Communications. "Enzymes have been increasingly used in ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired target, helping them find the best enzyme and substrate combination ...

Restriction enzymes are essential tools for recombinant DNA technology that have revolutionized modern biological research; however, they have limited sequence specificity and availability. The ...

In contrast to Mb(L23), although Mb(L14) potently inhibited the hydrolysis activity of BgaD-D toward lactose and similarly reduced the rates of transgalactosylation reactions, it did not affect the ...

The Carbohydrate-Active enZYme (CAZymes) classification system is a database that contains the knowledge of enzymes that are involved in the formation and break down of complex carbohydrates and ...

Ginkgo Bioworks is getting ready for another year of disrupting the entire biotech industry model with its versatile menu of biology engineering services. As a full-stack synthetic biology service ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...