Research confirms a new way for cells to conserve energy

By proving a theory that was first proposed almost 40 years ago, researchers have confirmed a new way that cells conserve energy. The study, led by William Metcalf, G. William Arends Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and leader of the Mining Microbial Genomes research theme at the University of Illinois Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, was published in mBio and gives scientists a better understanding of how organisms conserve energy and function as a part of the global carbon cycle. Read more