metabolism
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The study adds to a growing view of type 2 diabetes as a disease shaped by both metabolism and the immune system.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
That immune shift is important because insulin resistance is not only a problem of sugar metabolism.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
According to the researchers, this may weaken the body's ability to repair oxidative DNA damage, a type of cellular wear and tear that occurs as part of normal metabolism.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
Obesity is known to affect much more than body weight and metabolism.
From Science Daily • May 23, 2026
If sugar was sugar was sugar—if the metabolism of lactose was no different from that of glucose—then one might have expected bacteria fed on the glucose/lactose mix to exhibit the same smooth arc of growth.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing metabolism
The Things They Carried
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Power Suffix: -ism
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"Remarks at the Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center," Vocabulary from the speech
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