The modified enzyme, known as PETase, can start breaking down the same material in just a few days. This could revolutionise the recycling process, allowing plastics to be re-used more effectively.

Mussels have the uncanny power to stick to almost anything. Whether it’s a rough metal surface or a wet slippery rock, their ...

The FAST PETase enzyme is still in the lab-testing phase. But being able to break apart PET to its starting material and building it back again "would allow us to fully recircularize and we'd have ...

This bacterium can grow using PET as its main carbon source by producing two key enzymes: PETase and MHETase. Since then, ...

Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution. To illustrate the ...

I'm really excited about work that's being done with the PETase enzyme. This enzyme was identified in bacteria that have evolved to break down plastic into a carbon source. The PETase enzyme that is ...

A deeper look into the apparent self-defense mechanisms of these bacteriophage-resistant bacteria revealed their secret weapon: a group of enzymes called restriction endonucleases, or restriction ...

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to ...

This causes the formation of more enzyme-substrate complexes, leading to an increase in enzyme activity. This means the active site loses its important shape and can no longer form enzyme ...

How does your body speed up these important reactions? The answer is enzymes. Enzymes in our bodies are catalysts that speed up reactions by helping to lower the activation energy needed to start a ...

Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the origin of a curious duplication that gives plants multiple ways to override instructions that are coded into their DNA. This ...

Restriction enzymes are one of the most important tools in the recombinant DNA technology toolbox. But how were these enzymes discovered? And what makes them so useful? Aa Aa Aa When I come to the ...