metabolism

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Blood samples were also analyzed to track changes in metabolism, immune function, and other biological markers.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

In older mice, higher levels of the protein slowed cellular metabolism in the hippocampus.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Losing muscle while gaining abdominal fat has a compounded effect on the body's metabolism.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 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

During glucose metabolism, those messages were repressed, and the RNAs for glucose-digesting enzymes became abundant.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee