The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the whole world, causing over 13.75 million confirmed infections and over 589,000 deaths until now. Many broad-spectrum antiviral drugs have been tried in an ...

Catalase is a ubiquitous antioxidant enzyme that catalyses the dismutation of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen, thereby safeguarding plant cells from oxidative damage. Localised predominantly ...

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 ...

Acatalasemia is a metabolic condition (inborn error of metabolism) associated with a very low catalase activity in erythrocytes. Catalase is an antioxidant enzyme ...

Cancer researchers have homed in on how high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells. Vitamin C breaks down to generate hydrogen peroxide, which can damage tissue and DNA. The new study shows that tumor ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered how all the food that you eat gets digested? It is not only the acid in your stomach that breaks down your food—many little molecules in your body, called enzymes, ...

Diagrams showing (left) how catalase acts on symptoms of COVID-19, and a diagram showing what the enzyme does, converting hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are ...

Taken from a microbe that thrives in the depths of a Yellowstone National Park hot springs pool, a newly discovered enzyme may be the key to transforming industrial bleaching from environmentally ...