metabolism

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In animal models, it improved energy metabolism and extended lifespan.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Another study led by former graduate student Cynthia Wang-Claypool found that feathers, including those of Anna's hummingbirds, contain ethyl glucuronide, a byproduct of ethanol metabolism.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Their analysis showed that miR-93 drives fat buildup, inflammation, and scarring in the liver by suppressing SIRT1, a gene that plays a key role in managing fat metabolism inside liver cells.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

She wrote a letter to Kennedy in November urging the FDA to use enforcement discretion for certain peptides that she said were “critical to processes” such as metabolism, immune response and tissue repair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

He could not get out until the bones strewn around him grew back into living creatures; he had become joined to the metabolism of other lives, and until they rose he could not rise either.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick