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"This cellular proliferation requires an abnormal amount of fuel. "A tumor is like a manufacturing plant," Dr. Yang said. "It needs machines to allow mass production of building blocks to constantly produce new cells. For that to happen, the cancer cell absolutely must reprogram the metabolic pathways of normal cells by upregulating a lot of biosynthetic enzymes."

Writer: Xiaoyong Yang, PhD

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Date: Mar 4 2014 12:55 PM