Plastics can be difficult to recycle. Could a recently discovered enzyme help? Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary. Plastic pollution is a problem we’ve discussed ...

A relationship between sisters can be one of the closest there is. Neil and Georgie tune in to a BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour special about sisterhood and teach you some useful vocabulary.

Enzyme mechanisms are the chemical transformations, and the steps within them, generated by enzymatic action on substrates. The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types ...

Before then, I don’t think I even knew Jane Austen had a sister. But there she was, and she began slightly to haunt me. A long while back and purely by chance, I was asked to write a biography ...

The clinical spectrum of intestinal E. histolytica infection ranges from an asymptomatic carrier state to severe invasive disease. Asymptomatic cyst carriage occurs with E. histolytica as well as ...

Successive enzymatic reactions by a number of enzymes are generally required to achieve a single biologically active compound. Biosynthesis can be exploited for chemical synthesis in vitro or in ...