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enzyme

[en-zahym] / ˈɛn zaɪm /




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The answers she found are powerful, like an enzyme to treat HIV that was found in a tree that was discovered because a researcher spoke Samoan.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

However, when neurons are subjected to mechanical stress while squeezing through tight spaces, the enzyme can become trapped midway through the process, leaving sections of DNA broken.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

The study evaluated whether patients who didn’t respond to the standard-of-care therapy could be treated with riliprubart, which is designed to block an enzyme that drives key inflammatory mechanisms behind the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Similar treatments for the enzyme deficiencies known as Sanfilippo, Pompe and Gaucher diseases are in early clinical trials, or soon will be.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

In 1957, the biochemist Arthur Kornberg set out to isolate the DNA-copying enzyme.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Published in Nature Communications, the new study reveals how bacterial enzymes communicate with one another to assemble a family of closely related anti-cancer compounds.

From Science Daily Jul. 8, 2026

PDE3/4 inhibitors block specific enzymes to relax airway muscles and suppress inflammation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

“Pasteurizing milk kills or changes the natural enzymes, antibodies, and fatty acids that are critical to the physiology of how this works in your body.”

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

It is how he characterizes Denali’s TransportVehicle architecture, a modular platform it adapts to carry amyloid antibodies, tau gene-silencing antisense oligonucleotides, or the enzymes that treat some rare, but fatal, genetic disorders.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

But since there was no reason to rule out the participation of specific enzymes, I saw no need to be unduly disturbed.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson




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