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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IF a suitable amount of monoethyl-hydrogen peroxide is added to an active preparation of liver catalase at pH 7, the enzyme spectrum disappears instantly, and two new absorption bands in the green ...

Ever cut yourself, have someone put a dab of hydrogen peroxide on the cut, watch the entire area fizz like something that would turn you into the Joker, and wonder, “How is this good for me?” A simple ...

Characteristics of Enzymes: Enzymes are proteins and the properties and characteristics they exhibit reflect properties of protein. They are organic catalysts that speed up biological reactions ...

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 ...