Engineered Enzymes Can Repair Decades of Molecular Aging Damage
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#7779Z)
Revel Pharmaceuticals engineered an enzyme that removes carboxymethyllysine - a sugar-derived chemical modification of the amino acid lysine - from proteins and restores the residue to normal lysine. It was tested on donated human lens, skin, and arterial tissue in the lab. The significance is that no organism has ever been found with an enzyme ...