Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a ...

Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a catalyst to simplify the ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a new catalyst that could make the process of creating ...

A new enzyme-inspired, small-molecule catalyst developed at the University of Illinois holds alcohols and alkenes in just the ...

Neocapritermes taracua termites carry a life-ending enzyme that, when mixed with another compound during attacks, produces a ...

To see if cryptic pockets were also present on other GTPases, Shokat and coworkers overlaid the sequence of these enzymes ...

Anthony Green's research group at the University of Manchester, UK, reengineers enzymes to have catalytic functions beyond ...

Nature is the undisputed champion of creating complex organic molecules, many of which humans have used for many years to ...