Aside from your liver breaking down glycogen into glucose, your body also has the ability to manufacture glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis.

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They would be converted into glucose (of which cellulose, which makes up much of the dry weight of a plant, is a polymer) and the glucose would be shipped around much as oil is today, for eventual conversion into biofuels and bioplastics.

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"Once you fall into that glucose range, you are considered at high risk for developing the condition again, " says Magee.

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Its four fermentation towers, each nine stories high, use engineered bugs to turn corn glucose into a chemical building block used to make clothes and cosmetics.

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To save themselves when they are threatened with being overwhelmed by lipids, cells become insulin-resistant, which stops them taking up extra glucose which would then be converted into lipids.

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