Cooking is a human activity that stretches back millennia. The use of specific temperature, time, techniques, and procedures cause a change in the biochemical profile of foodstuffs, leading to changes ...

One of the main challenges of contemporary medicine is posed by the resistance of pathogens to antibiotics. An important step in countering it has now been made by researchers from IOCB Prague, in ...

Biochemistry is the field of science that studies the chemical processes taking place within living organisms at the molecular level, from the interaction of small molecule drugs with large ...

A study conducted at the Food Sciences unit of the University of Turku in Finland showed that different processing methods significantly affect the biochemical composition of plant-based foods.

Students in our program develop a strong foundation in basic chemistry, as well as exposure to a wide range of technologies that are specific to the analysis of biological systems. This gives them a ...

A pair of recent papers helps clear up a longstanding mystery about the enzyme particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). The enzyme sits in the membranes of bacteria that consume methane as their main ...

Studies of RNA structure often involve denaturing, purifying, and refolding the RNA. But the structures adopted after such manipulations may not accurately reflect the original structure the molecule ...