Study identifies an expanded role for PKM2 in helping cancer cells survive

Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

It has long been known that cancer cells use nutrients differently than normal cells. In recent years, the rapidly reemerging field of cancer metabolism has shed new light on the ways that cancers use glucose to grow and thrive, demonstrating that manipulation of an enzyme called PKM2 is important to this metabolic process.

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