metabolism
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Such markers can help researchers assess whether a dietary change is affecting processes linked to blood sugar control, metabolism, or heart health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
While the peptide’s risks and side effects are few, and its effects on mouse metabolism compelling, no one knows how long-term use affects humans yet, or what formula or dosage would be most effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Walk into most grocery stores or gyms, and you’ll find a wall of sleek cans with the caffeine of roughly three espresso shots, zero sugar and sans-serif pledges to accelerate metabolism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Published in Science Advances, the study points to a previously unrecognized interaction between the immune system and muscle cell metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
During glucose metabolism, those messages were repressed, and the RNAs for glucose-digesting enzymes became abundant.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The results point to one major difference: species whose metabolisms were less able to cope with warmer, oxygen poor water suffered the highest extinction rates.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
They can't support animal life, and are populated primarily by microbes and some very specialized fungi with different metabolisms than creatures in oxygen-rich environments.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 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
It was decided that their metabolisms must be lowered and that they must live for the most part in their bunks.
From Perfect Control by Stockham, Richard
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