As an assist to his students back in 1960, microbiologist Donald Nicholson sketched out a big chart of metabolic pathways; he thought it would help them to have it pinned up on a wall for ready ...

All cells produce substances that are essential for them to function properly. For example, in plants, specific metabolic pathways can produce glucose and chlorophyll. Metabolic pathways can be ...

Thousands of metabolic pathways exist and most involve multiple steps – some can be hundreds of steps long! All metabolic pathways together form a complex network that is necessary to maintain life.

Therefore, the authors suggest that the lipid metabolism pathways might be coordinately deregulated in cancer and other inflammatory and metabolic diseases, the pathogeneses of which may indeed ...