Through incremental change, Nature reworks and repurposes its functional machinery. In
this way, proteins that photochemically repair DNA by moving protons and electrons have a …

When Szent-Györgyi called water the “matrix of life”, 1 he was echoing an old sentiment.
Paracelsus in the 16th century said that “water was the matrix of the world and of all its …

Liquid water is a highly versatile material. Although it is formed from the tiniest of molecules,
it can shape and control biomolecules. The hydrogen-bonding properties of water are …

Quantum mechanics provides the most accurate microscopic description of the world around
us, yet the interface between quantum mechanics and biology is only now being explored …

Solvated electrons in liquid water are one of the seemingly simplest, but most important,
transients in chemistry and biology, but they have resisted disclosing important information …

The usefulness of waste activated sludge (WAS) as an energy source is limited by the poor
generation efficiency of methane from WAS, which is mainly due to the complex nature of …

Electron flow through proteins and protein assemblies in the photosynthetic and respiratory
machinery commonly occurs between metal centers or other redox cofactors that are …

Solvent organization is a key but underexploited contributor to the thermodynamics of
protein–ligand recognition, with implications for ligand discovery, drug resistance, and …

Protein surface hydration is fundamental to its structure and activity. We report here the
direct mapping of global hydration dynamics around a protein in its native and molten …

Conspectus The image is not the thing. Just as a pipe rendered in an oil painting cannot be
smoked, quantum mechanical coupling pathways rendered on LCDs do not convey …