Your liver handles metabolic, detoxification, and immune functions, including processing nutrients, making bile for fat digestion, producing blood-clotting proteins, and removing toxins like ammonia ...

releasing eggs, which can potentially be fertilized by sperm producing female sex hormones, such as progesterone and estrogen providing an environment for a fertilized egg to develop during pregnancy ...

The RNA world hypothesis proposes that early life was based on RNA, which subsequently devolved the storage of information to more stable DNA, and catalytic functions to more versatile proteins.

• The adrenal glands sit above the kidneys and produce the hormones cortisol, aldosterone, adrenaline, and noradrenaline that regulate metabolism, blood pressure, blood sugar, and stress response. • ...

Poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) is synthesized from NAD + by PAR polymerases (PARPs) and regulates many physiological processes such as the maintenance of DNA integrity, gene expression and cell division.

Many cells in multicellular organisms are specialised. They have specific roles in the organism of which they are part. Their structure is adapted to their function. They are often grouped together ...

Most life on Earth depends upon plants for energy. Plants capture light from the sun and use it to build up chemical stores of energy. This is called photosynthesis. The basic structure of a plant ...

Jeanne Gobat is a Senior Economist in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Opinions expressed in articles and other materials are those of the authors; they do not necessarily reflect ...

PostgreSQL is a free, open-source, ACID-compliant relational database. It is the database of choice for a large share of new applications because it is reliable, deeply featureful, standards-compliant ...