Nearly a century later, new findings support Warburg theory of cancer
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 16:56
in Biology & Nature
German scientist Otto H. Warburg's theory on the origin of cancer earned him the Nobel Prize in 1931, but the biochemical basis for his theory remained elusive. His theory that cancer starts from irreversible injury to cellular respiration eventually fell out of favour amid research pointing to genomic mutations as the cause of uncontrolled cell growth...