MIT biologists answer why cancer cells get their energy from fermentation – TechGenyz

MIT biologists might have found the answer to why cancer cells do not metabolize sugar the same way the healthy cells do. In a study that appeared in Molecular Cell, the biologists show that this pathway helps cells to regenerate large quantities of a molecule called NAD+ which they need to synthesize DNA and other important molecules.
Matthew Vander Heiden, an associate professor of biology at MIT and associate director of MITs Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the senior author…

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