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Hans Kornberg
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Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge; Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. Coauthor of Energy Transformations in Living Matter; editor of Essays in Cell Metabolism.

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Color-enhanced electron micrograph showing yellow mitochondria and blue endoplasmic reticulum within magenta-stained hepatocyte liver cells at high magnification.
Metabolism, the sum of the chemical reactions that take place within each cell of a living organism and that provide energy for vital processes and for synthesizing new organic material. Living organisms are unique in that they can extract energy from their environments and use it to carry out…
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