In the study of complex biochemical systems, model reduction offers a powerful framework to distil high-dimensional reaction networks into simpler, more tractable representations without sacrificing ...

Teemu Miettinen discusses his innovative method for measuring intracellular water, revealing its critical role in cell ...

Metabolism is the "beating heart of the cell". New research from ELSI retraces the history of metabolism from the primordial Earth to the modern day (left to right). The history of compound discovery ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford University have illuminated one of the great mysteries of life – how enzymes are ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Every second, as we breathe, sleep, eat and go about our lives, millions of biochemical reactions are happening in our cells. Among the hurly ...

The discipline of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) seeks to control and understand the networks of reactions that occur in ‘reactors’ ranging from cellular compartments up to world-scale ...

Inborn metabolic disorders are a group of conditions that occur due to problems with metabolism. The term “metabolism” refers to biochemical reactions that are necessary to support good health. These ...

As a young chemist at Columbia University in 1956, one of Ronald Breslow's first research goals was to solve the mystery of how the enzyme thiamine pyrophosphate catalyzed biochemical reactions such ...

It’s a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of endoplasmic reticulum encircle a nucleus ...

Life evolved from simple geochemical processes present on the early Earth. However, the details of this transformation remain a mystery. In this study, researchers modeled the emergence of metabolic ...