Broccoli sprout compound shown to reduce prediabetes in study participants
The chemical compound sulforaphane found in broccoli sprouts can be linked to improved blood sugar levels in prediabetes, a ...
Rubisco mapping study finds potential to engineer faster, more efficient photosynthesis
Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has ...
Biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex
Cyanobacteria began contributing oxygen to Earth's mostly noxious atmosphere more than 2 billion years ago. The photosystem ...
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Nanomachine Networks: Functional All-Enzyme Hydrogels from Photochemical Cross-Linking of Glucose Oxidase
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, ...
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Mass testing of mutant enzymes involved in photosynthesis
Rubisco is the enzyme responsible for carbon fixation in plants, algae and many bacteria. A screen of a comprehensive library of rubisco variants (each with a different single-amino-acid mutation ...