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• v  produce by metabolism

• Laboratory work has convinced him that in most diabetics the liver cannot metabolize fats fast enough.
• Past studies have suggested that people metabolize alcohol more slowly as they age and it takes them longer to clear alcohol from their system; alcohol may also alter brain .
• Folks with an uncommon genetic disorder called phenylketonuria shouldn't consume the sweetener because they cannot metabolize one of its ingredients.

• metabolise

News & Articles

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• How Archaea might find their food
  ( Ruhr-University Bochum ) The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum together with colleagues from Dresden, Frankfurt, Muelheim and the USA have identified a protein that might act as a "food sensor." They characterized the molecule in detail and ...
  June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!
• How Archaea might find their food: Sensor protein characterized
  Delicious dimethyl sulphide. The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists have now identified a protein that might act as a "food sensor."
  June 10, 2013 - Science Daily

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• Craig Venter in San Francisco Chronicle
  In our first data set, we found 780 new photoreceptors and 50,000 genes that metabolize hydrogen,Venter said, noting that the entire human genome has only 26,000 genes. "This could be the key to our energy future."