Eating plastic, it’s fantastic! Scientists might have found an unlikely solution to the trash problem choking our planet — a ...

The polymer consists of a hydrophobic (water-repelling) backbone and highly specific concentrations of its three components, calculated by PhD student Curt Waltmann, to specifically interact with ...

"The polymers were readily degraded by Novozym 435, an enzyme that specifically attacks the ester bonds of the polymer backbone," explains Yoshinori Takashima, senior author.

Scientists have developed a novel polymer-based therapy that could slow Huntington's disease progression by preventing ...

Small-molecule enzyme-inhibitors often display insufficient affinity and selectivity for their targets causing unwanted side effects when used as drugs. Molecularly imprinted polymers prepared ...

Polymers are made of monomers, and in DNA, these monomers are called nucleotides or nucleobases. The enzymes that handle DNA molecules are often called "polymerases," but the -ase suffix denotes ...

LPMO enzymes are usually composed of two modules: a binding module that enables it to recognize and bind to a specific ...

Polymers are found everywhere in nature - cellulose, a structural component of trees and other plants, is the most common example. Enzymes have evolved alongside them to break down their chemical ...

Studies support the idea of “polymers as therapeutics,” rather than polymers as carriers of drug molecules in the sense of ...

However, common techniques to extract cellulose from cell walls, which involve removing other entangled large molecules called polymers, require chemical solvents, enzymes and reactions at high ...

It was a revolutionary find — the first evidence that bacteria could digest our artificial polymers made from oil ... and their plastic-digesting enzymes. Bioengineers began to manipulate ...