New research represents a notable step forward in designing enzymes from scratch. With their approach, the authors designed an enzyme that uses a covalent intermediate to catalyze a two-step reaction, ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design brand-new enzymes that can go through multi-step reactions, a ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer’s disease could target a specific part of the nerve cell protein tau. This is the ...

Boffins plan to set a vampire trap to lure out aliens hiding on Mars using a chemical in human blood. Astrobiologists are ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

Researchers have long investigated what type of life exists beyond Earth and how we can find it. A new method focuses on looking for one of the most basic signs of living microbes – movement.

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...