Researchers Hone in on Anti-Cancer Enzyme – Video

Posted: Published on January 24th, 2012

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03-01-2012 08:19 youtu.be Enzyme That Flips Switch on Cells' Sugar Cravings Could Be Anti-Cancer Target Contacts: Lynne Anderson: 404-778-5452 News Article ImageCancer cells' metabolic preference is known as the "Warburg effect", after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. Cancer cells tend to take up more glucose than healthy cells, and researchers are increasingly interested in exploiting this tendency with drugs that target cancer cells' altered metabolism. Cancer cells' sugar cravings arise partly because they turn off their mitochondria, power sources that burn glucose efficiently, in favor of a more inefficient mode of using glucose.

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