Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tumors Monopolize Large Amounts of Sugar for Mobility

The gluttonous cancer cells are long known to monopolize large amounts of sugar. More recently, it became clear that some tumor cells are also characterized by a series of features such as mobility or unlikeliness to join in an ordered set. Researchers are calling this behavior "mesenchymal," and they suspect it promotes metastasis. At EPFL, Etienne Meylan's research team was able to demonstrate that the two observations - appetite for sugar and mesenchymal behavior ...

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