Although gout is no longer caricatured as a comical disease caused by high living and swilling port wine, it is still regarded as an affliction almost exclusively of adult men, many of whom like to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – In a study to be published January 9 on the journal Science Web site, researchers have discovered a protein defect that triggers some cases of a deadly gastrointestinal cancer. The ...

Imagine trying to bake a cake without heat. You’ve got all the ingredients like flour, eggs and sugar, but nothing is happening. That’s what your body would be like without enzymes: potential but no ...

Sucrase-isomaltase (SI) is an intestinal enzyme critical for the digestion of dietary carbohydrates, particularly sucrose and starch. Previous studies from the Gastrointestinal Genetics team at CIC ...

A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors with almost no way to intervene. Researchers have now traced that ...

A novel enzyme may play a major role in anencephaly, offering hope for a genetic test or even therapy for the rare fatal birth defect in which the brain fails to develop, according to a study from ...

Sandra A. Banta-Wright, MN, RNC, NNP; Robert D. Steiner, MD Neonates with profound and prolonged hyperammonemia with coma due to urea cycle defect will have had a neurological insult to the brain that ...

Scientists create cobalt-based 2D nanozymes with improved catalytic activity for colorimetric and photothermal detection of dihydroxybenzene pollutants. (Nanowerk News) Accurately identifying ...