Mind mapping is a visual technique that involves creating diagrams to represent ideas, tasks, or concepts branching out from ...

pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. The diagram below shows what happens to an enzyme when denaturation occurs. Each enzyme has an optimum pH but it also has a working range ...

Disrupted Recycling of Proteins Found to Damage Heart Health Feb. 4, 2025 — A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the ...

Understanding how cells transform into specialized types during human development is a central challenge in biology. This complex process, known as cell differentiation, holds the key to understanding ...

Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a ...

Structural and cellular assays and molecular dynamics simulations reveal the mechanism of action of γ-glutamyl carboxylase, which involves cholesterol and vitamin K. Protein kinase R-like ...

Jan. 3, 2025 — Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes ...

After they are incorporated into DNA, the drugs block DNMT enzymes from acting, which inhibits DNA methylation. Drugs aimed at histone modifications are called histone deacetylase (HDAC ...

Pharmaceutical ads are difficult to avoid in American television programming and a growing number of them promote a class of medications called JAK inhibitors, using an acronym that assumes the ...

Keeping active throughout life—particularly before the age of 50—leads to changes in the brain that could help stave off dementia, according to a study published in the journal Brain ...

New research has uncovered critical gaps in an emerging global public health tool for detecting environmental fecal contamination—which is linked to life-threatening diarrheal diseases that ...

Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn’t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here’s why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again ...