Researchers from the University of Adelaide have discovered how water molecules are organized during plant hydrolytic reactions, knowledge that could have sweeping consequences for the biomedical, ...

"In particular, chemical reactions that are unrelated to biochemistry have been invoked as missing steps in early biosynthetic pathways, suggesting that records of these chemical transformations ...

Elusive entities Until 1926, biochemists were perplexed by reactions that were exclusive to living systems, chalking them up to a mysterious "vital force." That year, James Sumner isolated the ...

Together, stopped-flow spectroscopy and chemical quench flow provide powerful tools for dissecting complex, fast biochemical reactions. Acknowledgements are essential for ensuring the continued ...

It is quite common for a single species to "phase out" using a biochemical reaction, and if this happens across enough species, such reactions could effectively be "forgotten" by life on Earth.