Aspirin, with its origins in willow bark, inhibits enzymes involved in inflammatory responses. Drugs and therapies all aim to modify biochemical processes for good or ill: Penicillin, derived from mold, stops bacteria making their cell walls. It didn't take long for an understanding of the chemistry of life to turn into a desire to manipulate it. Biochemistry is the study of those reactions, the molecules that are created, manipulated, and destroyed as a result of them, and the massive macromolecules that form the chemical machinery and structures on which these biochemical reactions take place. This chemistry must provide mechanisms that allow cells to interact with the external world, a means to power the cell, machinery to carry out varied processes within the cell, a structure within which everything runs, and also governance through a web of interlocking chemical reactions. From the simplest bacteria to humans, all living things are composed of cells of one type or another, all of which have fundamentally the same chemistry.
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