Krebs based his conception of this cycle on four main observations ... energy is consumed because two ATP molecules are used up to activate glucose and fructose-6-phosphate. Part of the energy ...

A Nobel Prize, of course. Such was the case for Hans Krebs, the biochemist who nabbed the award in 1953 for discovering the citric acid cycle, or “Krebs cycle”—the cellular pathway that converts ...

They discovered that decreasing pyrimidine levels in the cells also decreased glucose oxidation, the cell's ability to break ...