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Esmond E. Snell
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Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and of Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin. Editor of Pyridoxal Catalysis: Enzymes and Model Systems; Annual Review of Biochemistry (vol. 38–52).

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Nutrition, the assimilation by living organisms of food materials that enable them to grow, maintain themselves, and reproduce. Food serves multiple functions in most living organisms. For example, it provides materials that are metabolized to supply the energy required for the absorption and…
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