

This touches on some elemental concepts, and Lane is fine with that. To write about the Krebs cycle at all is necessarily to oversimplify it, but it’s fair to say this process is what separates being alive from being dead.

Transformer, the latest book from biochemist and professor of evolutionary biochemistry Nick Lane, is at heart about something called the Krebs cycle, which is informally named after biochemist Sir Hans Krebs and describes the chemical processes at the heart of both anaerobic and aerobic respiration. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
