Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and function. Enzymes play a ...

How you manage the mix in cornfields can determine whether the nitrogen feeds your crop or disappears into thin air.

A team of researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California has developed a microrobot for drug delivery ...

Scientists have shown that a notorious hospital fungus has learned to survive on human skin by feeding on carbon dioxide released at the surface. That metabolic edge helps it persist where infections ...

Wei Gao's lab at Caltech has made simple protein bubbles that are "smart" enough to transport themselves to tumor sites where they can be popped to release drug therapies ...

Everyone’s chasing “glass” (read: nearly poreless, because pores don’t actually disappear, despite what you’ve been told) skin that’s smooth, reflective, and impossibly even. What’s often left out of ...

This study evaluated the biological importance of immobilized urease enzyme over the free urease. The support material used for urease immobilization was alginate. Generally, the immobilization of ...

For more than a century, concrete has been the foundation of our modern civilization’s infrastructure with a stoic permanence. But that strength comes at a cost. Concrete, and the cement that binds it ...

Imagine trying to bake a cake without heat. You’ve got all the ingredients like flour, eggs and sugar, but nothing is happening. That’s what your body would be like without enzymes: potential but no ...