metabolism
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The newly identified feedback system may have implications that extend beyond physical growth and metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
It helps regulate essential functions such as body temperature, hunger, metabolism, sleep, and hormone production.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Known as DAMM, short for digestion, absorption and microbial metabolism, the model tracks how food moves through the digestive tract, how much energy the body absorbs directly, and how gut microbes process whatever remains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Its effects appeared both independently and alongside dietary risk factors, raising important questions about how this common plastic interacts with the body's metabolism and protective mechanisms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Whatever may have happened in his developing brain, it proved beneficial to his metabolism: from that two and a half days he gained an iron health.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
These molecules are generated in part because tumor cells have highly active metabolisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Starting in 2015, Hittinger's team sequenced the genomes and studied the metabolisms of nearly every known species of a group of yeasts distantly related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, better known as baker's yeast.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
"Considering that the vast majority of reductases encoded by gut bacteria remain functionally uncharacterized, identified metabolisms may only scratch the surface of interactions between respiratory reductases and the gut metabolome," the study authors wrote.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2024
We know in fact almost nothing about these metabolisms.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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