The many functions of the Krebs cycle mean it can explain much about life, Lane argues. For one thing, the cycle can run backwards, and this reverse Krebs seems to be much older than the ...

He adds that when run in reverse, the Krebs cycle “could have been responsible for building organic molecules from carbon dioxide and water.” Nicholas V. Hud, a chemist at the Georgia ...

Multicellular organisms formed from the cells, and then we began to have something that looked like life. The reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) is a crucial metabolic pathway in the evolution of ...

Item > UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists suspect that targeting the reverse Krebs cycle pathway in cancer cells could provide new treatment options. Release > In mouse experiments ...