Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out
- Written by: James Carter, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
ShutterstockInside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend.
And it’s not just in our bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it turns out none of them do it quite the same way.
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