IN a recent communication in Nature 1, Dr. P. George described manometric experiments which showed a rapid initial decay of the enzyme compared with which the well-known decay due to irreversible ...

When you think of peroxide, you think of those brown bottles from the drugstore. Some people use it like cheap bleach to lighten hair color, but mostly it's poured on wounds as a disinfectant. Going ...

What you’re seeing, when hydrogen peroxide fizzes up on contact with blood, is a desperate stuggle for life. An enzyme in your blood, and most other living things, rips hydrogen peroxide apart – but ...

Ever wondered what your liver was for? Worth looking after it! Enzymes! There are tens of thousands of chemical reactions going on inside our bodies all the time. I'm at a farmers' market in Edinburgh ...

Thousands of different chemical reactions must happen inside a cell every second in order for it to function. If these cellular reactions happen too slowly, the cell may die. If the cell is part of a ...