biochemical
adjective
bio·chem·i·cal
ˌbī-ō-ˈke-mi-kəl 
1
: of or relating to biochemistry
2
: characterized by, produced by, or involving chemical reactions in living organisms
a biochemical defect in the brain
biochemical
noun
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Around the same time, in an article published in Developmental Cell in 2018, Rando’s team reported the use of biochemical techniques to characterize where and when RNAs are packaged into sperm cells and how those RNAs might change during this process.
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Living codes that change over time or respond only to specific biochemical signals offer security that regular materials cannot.
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In those five years, AlphaFold 2 and its successor AI models have become almost as fundamental and ubiquitous tools of biochemical research as microscopes, petri dishes, and pipettes.
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Another key result is that supervised machine learning can uncover biochemical clues in Paleoarchean samples, rocks so old and altered that no intact biomolecules remain.
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Ivan Amato, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
Living codes that change over time or respond only to specific biochemical signals offer security that regular materials cannot.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
In those five years, AlphaFold 2 and its successor AI models have become almost as fundamental and ubiquitous tools of biochemical research as microscopes, petri dishes, and pipettes.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
Another key result is that supervised machine learning can uncover biochemical clues in Paleoarchean samples, rocks so old and altered that no intact biomolecules remain.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
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biochemical
adjective
bio·chem·i·cal
-ˈkem-i-kəl
1
: of or relating to biochemistry
2
: characterized by, produced by, or involving chemical reactions in living organisms
biochemical abnormalities
biochemical processes
biochemical
noun
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