Enzymes are biological catalysts. In simple terms, they speed up chemical reactions. Living organisms have chemical reactions ...

A model of the genome is described which relates certain observations on the additive nature of enzyme activity to observations on the quantitative genetics of fitness traits. The model assumes that ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...

All living things are made of carbon, and sugars, e.g. glucose, are a very common source of it. Consequently, most cells are good at eating sugars, using enzymes to digest them through a series of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 85, No. 22 (Nov. 15, 1988), pp. 8751-8755 (5 pages) Immobilized-enzyme reactors are beginning to be studied for a ...