New research shows a fungus, *Candida tropicalis*, surprisingly boosts black soldier fly larvae's nutrition. It increases ...

Researchers have mapped the chemical pathway for 4-vinylanisole that causes locusts to swarm and figured out how to inhibit ...

News & Views Published: 15 May 2015 Enzyme pathways C1 metabolism redesigned Yi-Shu Tai & Kechun Zhang Nature Chemical Biology 11, 384–386 (2015) Cite this article ...

Amino acid-capped gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a promising tool for various applications, including therapeutics and diagnostics. Most often, amino acids are used to cap AuNPs synthesized with other ...

Bacillus subtilis produces the antibiotic anticapsin as an l-Ala-l-anticapsin dipeptide precursor known as bacilysin, whose synthesis is encoded by the bacA−D genes and the adjacent ywfGH genes. To ...