How to Use biochemistry in a Sentence

biochemistry

noun
  • My line of work is biochemistry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 June 2026
  • But zoom in enough, and the biochemistry that makes up life is really just physics.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • Brains, we were told, could be cured through the correction of biochemistry.
    — Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • Depending on the time of year and the biochemistry, the saltern might be a swath of salmon-pink stripes.
    — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
  • Doudna agreed to use her skills in genetics and biochemistry to find out.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To find out, the researchers in France did some old fashioned biochemistry.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Bile’s severe biochemistry can damage cells that haven’t evolved strategies to deal with it.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2022
  • Despite the abundance of modern food, our biochemistry hasn’t kept pace.
    — Marisa McMillan, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But this is just a general tendency based on the biochemistry of the surface of the host cells.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Little is known about the biochemistry of how smoke contaminates wine.
    — Doug Main, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
  • As the seasons change, a riot of red shows up in the world around us, showcasing some of the most vivid hues that plant biochemistry can create.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Zahra was completing a master’s in biochemistry.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • The highest ranked of all designs are then synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab.
    — Theo Karasavvas, Ars Technica, 23 July 2017
  • Kopps has earned a degree in biochemistry and according to his bio plans to be an orthopedic surgeon.
    — Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 12 July 2021
  • Wright is planning to study biochemistry at Yale University in the fall.
    — Seamus Webster, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2022
  • Morton is also going to school for biochemistry, so the flexible hours are important to him.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 July 2021
  • One is the massive datasets created by decades of genome sequencing and protein biochemistry, which can be too much for any one researcher to take in.
    — ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Then Saldaña, a chemist who holds his doctorate in the biochemistry of agave, ages his spirit for two years in bourbon barrels.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Ridgeway will major in biochemistry and be a walk-on for the Washington State football team.
    — oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • To identify this mechanism, the researchers performed a clever bit of biochemistry.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2019
  • With a background in biochemistry, Briony Marshall knows all about molecules.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • All of this biochemistry is in service of a simple point, which is that there’s a big grey area between the extremes of being fully fueled and bonking.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Rajagopalan first came to the United States 20 years ago to get her doctorate in biochemistry.
    — Bridgette M. Redman, Chron, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Maddie desires to attend a four-year university and major in biochemistry.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Liu plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin to major in biochemistry.
    — Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 29 May 2018
  • Dutton is a double major, having studied biochemistry and chemistry.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • These organic structures, used in biochemistry and sensing applications, are about one nanometer in size.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2017
  • Her mother left India to come to the United States in 1958 to study biochemistry.
    — Lz Granderson, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2024
  • Once inside the cell, the virus has to evade the cell’s immune defenses and then commandeer the appropriate parts of the host’s biochemistry to churn out new viruses.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2020
  • But Watson went to Europe to study the biochemistry of nucleic acids like DNA.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025

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