life-giving

For the Hopi, the mountains provided life-giving rain and spiritual sustenance while the Havasupai’s creation story is centered on the four peaks, which they believed were at the center of the earth.

July has hit a creative, life-giving stride, at 50, with her new novel, “All Fours” — her first since 2015’s “The First Bad Man.”

“So we move from verdant, life-giving spaces to a less hospitable land,” she said.

Why would it, with billions of dollars at stake, never mind access to life-giving drugs for millions of Americans.

Cells in the human body contain power-generating mitochondria, each with their own mtDNA -- a unique set of genetic instructions entirely separate from the cell's nuclear DNA that mitochondria use to create life-giving energy.