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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 143 (1 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchembio0308-143

Metals in chemical biology

Bioinorganic chemistry—the interface of biology and inorganic chemistry—first emerged as a distinct discipline around 1962 with the first “Metals in Biology” Gordon Research Conference (originally called “Metals and Metal Binding in Biology”). The field exploded in the early 1980s, with 1983 marking the first International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC) (p.