Joan A. Steitz was a young biochemist in 1968, working with Francis Crick, the Nobel laureate credited with co-discovering the DNA double helix. And she needed a breakthrough. The early steps of her ...

In 20th-century biochemistry history of China, Szu-Chih Liu (刘思职, 1904—1983)(Fig. 1) acted as a central bridge in both academic genealogy and knowledge indigenization. Liu inherited the methodology ...

Section I. Enzymes -- a. From the 1780s to c. 1880: fermentation and digestion / A.-L. Lavoisier ... [et al.] -- b. From c. 1880 to c. 1940: nature of action and ...