metabolism
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Research on blood metabolites can be difficult to interpret because metabolism differs considerably from person to person.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Combined with the mouse experiments and health record analysis, the findings suggest that abnormal metabolism may be more than a secondary consequence of Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
A study in mice now suggests that the drug may improve metabolism directly by activating brown adipose tissue, a form of fat that specializes in using energy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
They also measured neuronal ATP, the energy molecule that powers neurons, along with astrocytic pyruvate, a key compound that connects glucose from the blood with energy metabolism in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Freezing a cell was like pressing a pause button: cell division, metabolism, and everything else simply stopped, then resumed after thawing as if you’d just pressed play again.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Additionally, they discovered diverse viral communities and uncovered 13 types of AMGs that help regulate the metabolisms of their host.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 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
These bacteria appear to be more resourceful than bacteria with respiratory metabolisms that live outside of a host organism, which mostly use inorganic compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
Invariably, on other planets, that has meant higher metabolisms in the fauna.
From The Test Colony by Winston K. Marks
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