Tag: Metabolism

  • Nation & World

    Not so black and white

    Harvard researchers identify a mechanism with therapeutic potential for anemia.

    4 minutes
    Zebrafish embryo.
  • Nation & World

    Enzyme interference

    Researchers discovered that Eggerthella lenta — a bacterium found in the guts of more than 30 percent of the population — can metabolize the cardiac drug digoxin in high enough quantities to render it ineffective. Now, a team of researchers has identified the culprit gene that produces the digoxin-metabolizing enzyme.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Microbial menace

    A new study has shown that — under certain conditions — gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts.

    3 minutes
    E. coli
  • Nation & World

    Getting to the source

    A team of Harvard researchers has demonstrated that the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris can use natural conductivity to pull electrons from minerals located remotely in soil and sediment while remaining at the surface, where it absorbs the sunlight needed to produce energy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Future man

    “Tectonic Visions Between Land and Sea,” at Gund Hall through Oct. 16, is a room-filling, eye-filling Kiyonori Kikutake retrospective.

    5 minutes