Episode
Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1
COMPLEXITY · Jun 17, 2021 · 41 min
Deep inside your cells, the chemistry of life is hard at work to make the raw materials and channel the energy required for growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Few systems are as intricate or as mysterious. For this reason, how a cell does what it does remains a frontier for research — and, consequently, theory often grows unchecked by solid data. Most of what we know about the enzymatic…