metabolism
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The researchers found that this response also relies on another factor called HIF-1α, which helps control genes involved in metabolism and tissue repair.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
“The amount varies markedly on individuals based on weight, sweat rates and ambient temperatures,” says Dr. Joseph G. Verbalis, chief of endocrinology and metabolism at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The gland secretes vital hormones that help with processes like growth, metabolism and regulating blood pressure and temperature.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
One is biological – early nutrition may shape how the metabolism, organs and immune system develop.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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 higher temperatures promote algae growth by allowing their metabolisms to shift into overdrive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
The authors also contest Herculano-Houzel's assumption that one can predict different dinosaurs' metabolisms, aging rates and other life history traits based on the existing data.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
Starting in 2015, Hittinger's team sequenced the genomes and studied the metabolisms of nearly every known species of a group of yeasts distantly related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, better known as baker's yeast.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
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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