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 ...

Researchers from the Southern University of Science and Technology, reporting on November 28, 2025, in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, describe a new optoelectrowetting-based droplet dispensing system ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

For much of nutrition science history, trace minerals were discussed almost exclusively in the context of deficiency diseases ...

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 ...

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 ...