An artist’s depiction of an artificially evolved enzyme breaking a silicon-carbon bond. [Caltech/Dow] For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break the stubborn man-made ...
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Scientists resurrect extinct cannabis enzymes and uncover the drug’s roots
Cannabis has been part of human culture for thousands of years, yet the molecular machinery that gives the plant its ...
Scientists have uncovered how cannabis evolved the ability to make its most famous compounds—THC, CBD, and CBC—by recreating ...
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Cannabis Did Not Always Produce THC and a New Study Shows How Evolution Figured It Out
The results revealed a clear sequence. Enzymes predating cannabis showed no ability to process CBGA. The first enzyme unique ...
An enzyme that defends human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer cells, according to a new study. The finding ...
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Study analyzes 400 million years of enzyme evolution
Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence, researchers at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now ...
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