Remove 2016 Remove Clinical Development Remove DNA Remove Protein Production
article thumbnail

Beyond Steel Tanks

Codon

Credit: Universität Würzburg Archives His key insight hinged upon the fact that living cells are essentially bags of liquid filled with enzymes, or proteins that speed up chemical reactions. Water accounts for 70 percent of a bacterium by mass; the other 30 percent includes everything else: proteins, RNA, DNA, lipids, and so on.