NIH-supported research may provide tool to study cancer metabolism
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2012. Scientists have known for decades that cancer cells use more glucose than healthy cells, feeding the growth of some types of tumors. Now, a team that includes researchers from the National Institutes of Health’s new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has identified compounds that delay the formation of tumors in mice, by targeting a key enzyme that governs how cancer…
