A collaborative team from the University of Macau and Nanjing University found, using clinical databases and samples, that the loss of a protein named MFG-E8 in nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue is a ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the ...

As the world's population ages, intervertebral disk degeneration (IDD) has become a major medical issue, causing chronic ...

Scientists have developed a new technique to screen engineered enzyme reactions, which could lead to faster and more ...

Crews' lab, in collaboration with researchers at UC Irvine, has found that decreased function of an enzyme called ELOVL2 (short for "elongation of very long chain fatty acids-like 2") speeds up ...

Chair of Industrial Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany ...

New work by the team of Prof. Max Mazzone (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology) discovered that an enzyme called HPGDS (expressed in a specific subset of macrophages), plays a key role in ...