Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only was she an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for #enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme #histochemistry, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first #electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944! 
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#histsci #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #MastoArt
Novel #enzyme breaks down and synthesizes previously unexplored #glycans with prebiotic potential.
#mighymicrobes #Bacteroides #β-galactosidase #Bxy_22780 #α-GalF
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-enzyme-previously-unexplored-glycans-prebiotic.html
From farmland to construction: #Bacteria strains offer #sustainable #biocement solution.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-farmland-bacteria-strains-sustainable-biocement.html
Wusstest du, dass #Bienen für ein Glas #Honig Nektar von 5 Millionen #Blumen sammeln? 
Honig besteht zu 80 % aus Zucker und enthält wichtige #Enzyme, die ihn unbegrenzt haltbar machen. Doch warum sind #Imker in Deutschland meist nur #Hobbyimker? Mehr über Imkerei im Beitrag. Ich sag nur: Kauft regional und original. 
#Imkerei #Landwirtschaft #Imker #Bestäuber #Honigbienen #RegionaleProdukte
https://www.oekologisch-unterwegs.de/haushaltstipps/1111-wissenswertes-ueber-honig.html
23-Jan-2025
Super #enzyme breaks down #testosterone
Male ruffs can remove excess #sexHormones from their blood
I'm looking forward to #application in #humans :)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071488 #science #birds #hormones #behaviour
I got an email from the author promoting this benchmark comparison of #Julialang + StanBlocks + #Enzyme vs #Stan runtimes.
StanBlocks is a macro package for Julia that mimics the structure of a Stan program. This is the first I've heard about it.
A considerable number of these models are faster in Julia than Stan, maybe even most of them.
SmartProSys Research Insights: Chemists and process engineers from Magdeburg University together with researchers at Greifswald University are using enzymes and medium engineering to modify the product spectrum during PET depolymerization.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cssc.202401759
#enzyme #biocatalysis #polymer #plastics #depolymerization #reactionengineering #greenchemistry #selectivity #processcontrol
Jan von Langermann | Christof Hamel | Uwe Bornscheuer | Ren Wei | Tobias Heinks | Luise Blach
In a study with mice it has been found that one particular enzyme, called or tyrosine kinase 2, or TYK2 for short, is responsible for the accumulation of the harmful tau protein in the brain, a main feature linked to Alzheimer's disease. Blocking it in the experiments resulted in a reduction of the tau in the brain. See http://www.neat-news.com/2024/11/291.php. #Alzheimer #enzyme
Gehört quasi zu Reihe 
Widerlich:
In #Kenia wurde erstmals ein Insekt entdeckt, das Styropor abbauen kann. Die #MehlwurmLarven sind natürlich nicht widerlich, sondern der #Plastikabfall.
Die Larven verdauen das #Plastik mithilfe von Bakterien in ihrem Darm. Die von ihnen produzierten #Mikroben und #Enzyme könnten in Fabriken und Deponien genutzt werden, um Plastik effizienter abzubauen.
Mach' mit im Kampf gegen die #Plastikflut
#Bemnifosbuvir (AT-527) & AT-752 are #antiviral guanosine analogues currently in clinical trials. @F2erron &co reconstitute their intracellular 5-step enzymatic activation pathway, characterizing each #enzyme complex at atomic resolution #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3WVSAjG
new citation:
`In this review, we examine DNA polymerases at the molecular level, their biotechnological use, and their evolutionary methods in relation to the novel properties sought, providing a chronological selection of evolved #DNA polymerases cited in the literature that we consider to be of great interest. To our knowledge, this work is the first to bring together the molecular, functional and evolutionary aspects of the DNA #polymerase #enzyme.`
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141813024047299?via%3Dihub
"RNA fragments containing preQ0 were prepared from Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNAPhe-preQ015. ArcS transferred 14C-labeled lysine to RNA fragments. Furthermore, ArcS transferred lysine to preQ0 nucleoside and preQ0 nucleoside 5′-monophosphate. Thus, the L-shaped structure and the sequence of tRNA are not essential for the lysine-transfer reaction by ArcS. However, the presence of D-arm structure accelerates the lysine-transfer reaction."
Research team models connection between #enzyme activity and yields for the first time.
Three Awesome Scientific Discoveries From the #SolarEclipse. : Medium
Two newly discovered #Andes Mountain plant species have an appetite for #Insects : Pop Sci
A surprisingly quick #Enzyme could shift our understanding of #Evolution : New Scientist
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