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

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

The orally administered, brain-penetrant small molecule is an allosteric protein modulator that restores the function of the lysosomal protein enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GCase) which becomes misfolded ...

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

A DIY white wine spritzer is a great low-sugar and low-calorie option.

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Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional repertoire of proteins - ...

Now that the researchers are in possession of clear performance parameters and the reaction mechanism of the enzyme, they want to search for better alternatives in different fungi, and try to ...

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The funding will support mid-stage testing of a drug the company believes to have the potential to treat a range of neurodegenerative conditions.