ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Auburn University. Auburn University is a public research university with strengths in engineering, agriculture, veterinary medicine, biosciences, forestry, materials science, and cybersecurity. Its researchers investigate areas including food and animal health, advanced manufacturing, transportation, environmental sustainability, energy, infectious disease, and data-driven technologies, combining fundamental and applied research to address challenges in health, industry, agriculture, and the environment.
A urine-derived bacterium converted DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) into testosterone in culture, and structural modeling showed how one unusually flexible enzyme could carry out multiple steps in the pathway.