A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her sinuses at an RV campground, according to a recent report.

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 ...

Its biosynthesis is orchestrated by enzymes from both primary and secondary metabolism, including a flavin-dependent S-hydroxylase. The prevalence of enzymes catalysing the production of ...