Summary of Nick Lane's Transformer

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Frederick Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, was a major advocate for biochemistry as a scientific discipline separate from chemistry. He was also a major advocate for the use of biochemical processes to accelerate cell division.
#2 Frederick Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, was a major advocate for biochemistry as a scientific discipline separate from chemistry. He was also a major advocate for the use of biochemical processes to accelerate cell division.
#3 Hans Krebs, the German-Jewish scientist, fled to Britain in 1933 and invented the manometer, which measured the pressure of gases. He then went on to study respiration, which he considered the most pressing biological question of his time.
#4 The harder the discoveries, the better the stories. The more scope they have to colour our thinking.

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• Science
• Biochemistry
• Sciences et techniques
• Life Sciences

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350000405
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Frederick Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, was a major advocate for biochemistry as a scientific discipline separate from chemistry. He was also a major advocate for the use of biochemical processes to accelerate cell division.

#2

Frederick Hopkins, President of the Royal Society, was a major advocate for biochemistry as a scientific discipline separate from chemistry. He was also a major advocate for the use of biochemical processes to accelerate cell division.

#3

Hans Krebs, the German-Jewish scientist, fled to Britain in 1933 and invented the manometer, which measured the pressure of gases. He then went on to study respiration, which he considered the most pressing biological question of his time.

#4

The harder the discoveries, the better the stories. The more scope they have to colour our thinking.

#5

Krebs’s experimental approach derived from that of his mentor, the great German biochemist Otto Warburg. Meticulous and brilliant, Warburg was also domineering and authoritarian. The key method that Warburg had pioneered was to measure the escape of gases from thin slices of tissue, cut using a razor blade.

#6

The harder the discoveries, the better the stories. The more scope they have to colour our thinking.

#7

The harder the discoveries, the better the stories. The more scope they have to colour our thinking.

#8

The secret of respiration lies in how carboxylic acids are burned in oxygen.

#9

The secret of respiration lies in how carboxylic acids are burned in oxygen.

#10

The harder the discoveries, the better the stories. The more scope they have to colour our thinking.

#11

Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian scientist who won a Nobel Prize for isolating vitamin C, which is a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6. He struggled to determine its structure. With an impish sense of humour, he first named it ‘ignose’ (the ‘nose’ denoting its sugary affinities, and the ‘ig’ his own ignorance). When that name was rejected, he proposed ‘Godnose’. It was eventually given the chemical name ascorbic acid, for its anti-scorbutic properties.

#12

Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize-winning research on vitamin C, which was a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6, demonstrated that these simple molecules could speed up reactions without being consumed themselves.

#13

Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize-winning research on vitamin C, which was a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6, demonstrated that these simple molecules could speed up reactions without being consumed themselves.

#14

Szent-Györgyi, a Hungarian scientist, won a Nobel Prize for isolating vitamin C, which is a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6. He struggled to determine its structure. With an impish sense of humour, he first named it ‘ignose’ (the ‘nose’ denoting its sugary affinities, and the ‘ig’ his own ignorance). When that name was rejected, he proposed ‘Godnose’. It was eventually given the chemical name ascorbic acid, for its anti-scorbutic properties.

#15

Szent-Györgyi won a Nobel Prize for isolating vitamin C, which is a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6. He struggled to determine its structure. With an impish sense of humour, he first named it ‘ignose’ (the ‘nose’ denoting its sugary affinities, and the ‘ig’ his own ignorance). When that name was rejected, he proposed ‘Godnose’. It was eventually given the chemical name ascorbic acid, for its anti-scorbutic properties.

#16

Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize-winning research on vitamin C, which was a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6, demonstrated that these simple molecules could speed up reactions without being consumed themselves.

#17

The urea cycle is a biochemical cycle that starts with a C6 amino acid called arginine. It is catalyzed by an enzyme that breaks arginine down into two unequal pieces, the C1 waste product urea, and a shorter C5 amino acid called ornithine.

#18

Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize-winning research on vitamin C, which was a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6, demonstrated that these simple molecules could speed up reactions without being consumed themselves.

#19

Szent-Györgyi’s Nobel Prize-winning research on vitamin C, which was a C6 molecule similar to glucose with the formula C6H8O6, demonstrated that these simple molecules could speed up reactions without being consumed themselves.