Sentences with phrase «power cell metabolism»

Hydrogenases can also run in reverse, converting H2 into protons and electrons that can be used to power cell metabolism.

The structure of this complex, determined using cryo - electron microscopy, shows how it converts near - infrared light into an electrical charge in order to power cell metabolism, which enables this bacterium to live at the extreme red limit of photosynthesis on Earth.

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This year her team discovered that sleep deprivation impedes the metabolism of glucose, the sugar that powers the body, in fat cells by a startling 30 percent.

Dr. Altieri also leads a research program that studies how tumor cells evade programmed cell death and the role of mitochondria, power plant of the cells, in tumor metabolism.

You'll be helping your body to eliminate accumulated waste, support the health of your DNA and mitochondria (the energy powers your cells), and even supercharge your metabolism.

Maybe because people eating plant - strong diets express more of the fat shoveling enzyme inside the power plants — the mitochondria — within our cells (How to Upregulate Metabolism).

Metabolism has two distinct divisions: catabolism, in which the cell breaks down complex molecules to produce energy and reducing power, and anabolism, in which the cell uses energy and reducing power to construct complex molecules and perform other biological functions.