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Researchers at University of California San Diego, Mass General Brigham, and their colleagues have identified specific gut ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

“We found that gut bacteria, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, ferment sugars into ethanol in the ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

Cancer cells survive therapy by dynamically rewiring their metabolism in response to nutrient availability, ...

A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...

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