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Solving a 100-Year-Old Paradox: Why Cancer Cells Waste So Much Energy – SciTechDaily
MIT study sheds light on the longstanding question of why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation. In the 1920s, German chemist Otto Warburg discovered…

MIT biologists have found a possible explanation for the Warburg effect, first seen in cancer cells in the 1920s and named after Otto Warburg, pictured. Credit: Image: Digital collage by Jose-Luis Olivares; cancer image courtesy of Dr. Cecil Fox, NCI; Warburg photo courtesy of NIH
MIT study sheds light on the longstanding question of why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation.
In the 1920s, German chemist Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells don’t metabolize sugar the same way that…
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