Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse at the University of Jena and the Leibniz-HKI, together ...

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Most of the enzymes involved in drug metabolism are present in the liver. This means the liver plays a key role in drug metabolism. Drug metabolism occurs when the body chemically alters drugs so it ...

Researchers have identified an enzyme that blocks insulin produced in the body -- a discovery that could provide a new target to treat diabetes. The study focuses on nitric oxide, a compound that ...

Proteins that respond to external stimuli function as molecular switches, playing a vital role in the precise regulation of biological processes. Therefore, if protein switches could be artificially ...

The human body is a complex organism, made up of trillions of cells. But not all of them are human — about half of them are fungi, microbes and bacteria. Scientists are starting to understand how and ...

Raman imaging offers a greater potential for detecting multiple enzyme activities than fluorescence imaging, demonstrate Tokyo Tech researchers by developing 9CN-rhodol-based activatable Raman probes ...

Prognostic role of a novel clinical-nutritional index in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: The Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Nutritional-Clinical Index (PANCIN). Patient characteristics and outcomes after ...