metabolism
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"But therapeutic strategies targeting metabolism in inflammatory diseases remain underexplored."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
A new study led by the University of Bath estimates that carbon dioxide production from human metabolism increased by 74% between 1985 and 2015, reaching 2.05 billion metric tons annually.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Despite the enormous numbers, the researchers emphasize that the carbon dioxide produced by human metabolism is fundamentally different from the emissions generated by burning fossil fuels.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Such information could eventually help researchers better understand how extinct animals functioned, including aspects of their metabolism and physiology that are difficult to reconstruct from bones alone.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 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
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
Most of the microbes living in the gut use fermentation, but there are also several known types of bacteria with respiratory metabolisms, including those that use carbon dioxide and sulfate electron acceptors.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2024
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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