metabolism

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Beyond its potential therapeutic applications, the research uncovered an unexpected connection between cellular metabolism and DNA repair.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

"Our results suggest that altered metabolism is a significant contributor to Alzheimer's progression and, in addition, addressing the metabolic defect could be an important complement to approaches focused on Alzheimer's plaques and tangles," Sun said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

One of the first changes they observed was reduced eating in infected mice, which suggested that the animals' metabolism had shifted.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 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

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