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Ever wonder how your body turns food into fuel? We tracked atoms to find out

  • Written by: James Carter, Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Inside 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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