Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered a novel mechanism that recognizes and eliminates "bad" transcriptional ...

Because of their prominent role, numerous diseases are directly linked to specific enzyme-catalysed processes, either caused by erroneous enzyme activity or lack of activity for a given ...

Alzheimer's disease is one of the world's biggest health problems. Yet, despite the fact millions of people globally are diagnosed with the disease each year, it remains a challenge to treat.

Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is an irregular heart rhythm that increases a person's risk of stroke, heart failure and even ...

"We believe it will be possible to target MICAL2 with drugs as it is an enzyme in a class of proteins against which inhibiting drugs have been successfully made to treat other human diseases.

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

"We believe it will be possible to target MICAL2 with drugs as it is an enzyme in a class of proteins against which inhibiting drugs have been successfully made to treat other human diseases.

Haliza Md Kasim’s eyes widened. Despite having gone through this before with her first son, Yusof, and despite the doctors ...

But what happens if an enzyme is missing or doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to? One example is phenylketonuria (or PKU), a rare inherited disease where the body lacks the enzyme to process proteins ...

However, a recent study from Johns Hopkins University offers new hope. Researchers found that an experimental drug, ...

Cardiac enzymes ― also known as cardiac biomarkers ― include myoglobin, troponin and creatine kinase. Historically, lactate dehydrogenase, or LDH, was also used but is non-specific.