metabolism
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This offset a weaker-than-expected performance at AstraZeneca’s cardiovascular, renal and metabolism business, the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The six peptides are BPC-157, Epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c, Semax, and TB-500, which are marketed for antiaging, boosting metabolism and improving memory, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
These findings strengthened the evidence that MTCH2 influences whole-body metabolism, rather than simply changing the behavior of isolated cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
In other words, disabling Mitch appeared to affect fat metabolism in two distinct ways.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
He could not get out until the bones strewn around him grew back into living creatures; he had become joined to the metabolism of other lives, and until they rose he could not rise either.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
The 97-degree reading adds physical evidence to the idea that tyrannosaurs were energetic animals with relatively high metabolisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
"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
These bacteria appear to be more resourceful than bacteria with respiratory metabolisms that live outside of a host organism, which mostly use inorganic compounds.
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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