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the proof that you are a slow, wet, electrified bag of controlled explosions
means The branch of science that studies the chemical processes and substances inside living things — how molecules like proteins, sugars, fats, and DNA build, fuel, and run an organism.
from A modern compound, stitched together in the early 20th century from Greek 'bios' (life) and 'chemistry.' The 'chem-' half has a tangled lineage: it traces back through 'alchemy' (Arabic 'al-kīmiyā'), and possibly further to Greek 'khēmeia' or even an old name for Egypt, 'Khēmia,' the black land — so buried in the word is the ancient art of transforming matter, now turned on the matter of life itself.
- ATP turnover
- you cycle your body weight in ATP daily
- enzyme speed
- some catalyze millions of reactions per second
- DNA length
- your cells hold two meters of coiled code
- oxygen origin
- breathing slowly rusts and ages your cells
- cold start
- reactions stall near zero, restart with warmth
krebs cycle — central metabolic pathway discovered by hans krebs in 1937 that produces atp and electron carriers
structure of hemoglobin — protein crystallography by max perutz revealed oxygen-binding mechanism in human red blood cells, 1958
pcr polymerase chain reaction — technique invented by kary mullis in 1983 that revolutionized dna amplification and diagnostics
crispr gene editing — bacterial defense system adapted by jennifer doudna and emmanuelle charpentier in 2012 for genome editing