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, ...

A new concept of kinetic modules in biochemical networks could revolutionize the understanding of how these networks function. Scientists succeeded in linking the structure and dynamics of biochemical ...

"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 ...

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.