metabolism
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His earlier work showed that the products of fructose metabolism can be exploited by cancer cells to promote their growth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the Cell study, researchers built a detailed map of metabolism in the developing human cortex.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Research increasingly suggests that these microbes can influence the brain through immune signals, metabolism, and other biological pathways.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Previous research from Andreasson's group also showed that the energy metabolism of tissue resident macrophages gradually deteriorates with age.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
And although her nanites could be programmed to speed up her metabolism, her mother wouldn’t hear of it.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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
Their sluggish metabolisms help them conserve energy, which is difficult to come by in the dark, sparsely-populated deep.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
But so extremely intricate is the chemistry of the substances involved that in no single case has the exact nature of the metabolisms wrought by these organs been fully made out.
From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Henry Smith Williams
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