This release is available in French. Scientists at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal have discovered a key mechanism used by cells to efficiently ...

Carbohydrate chains play physiologically relevant roles. For instance, many biologically important proteins and lipids inside our body have carbohydrate chains attached to them. These “sugar” chains, ...

Today, Dr. Ratna Singh’s and her co-workers’ manuscript on an in depth dry and wet lab analysis of “our” chitosanase was accepted for publication in Nature’s open access journal “Scientific Reports”.

Bacteria draw from an arsenal of weapons to combat the drugs intended to kill them. Among the most prevalent of these weapons are ribosome-modifying enzymes. These enzymes are growing increasingly ...

Advanced microscopy techniques give scientists valuable clues for how to fight an enzyme that is leading to a rise in cases of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections worldwide. Bacteria draw from ...

This innovative study is the first to characterize the metabolites of TOTUM•070 in humans and their mode of action in the liver in a population of 10 healthy volunteers. TOTUM•070 was tested at its ...

One of the most revolutionary discoveries of the century, the CRISPR gene-editing system is built on a bacterial defense mechanism that allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA. Now scientists ...