Research Articles
A Sweet Tooth for Survival: How Cutting Off Sugar Starves Cancer Cells
Discover how sodium butyrate fights cancer by targeting GLUT1 sugar transporters and inducing apoptosis in HT-29 cancer cells.
How Cancer Cells Cheat Death: The Surprising Link Between Sugar Metabolism and Survival
Discover how Akt-directed glucose metabolism prevents Bax conformation change and promotes cancer cell survival, opening new therapeutic possibilities.
The Hidden Battle Within: How Cancer Hijacks the Body's Energy System
Discover how cancer causes insulin resistance in skeletal muscle through TNF-α expression and leads to cachexia in cancer patients.
Cancer's Dirty Fuel Secret: How Tumors Forge Their Own Fuel to Survive
Scientists discover how 4EBP1 and 4EBP2 proteins help cancer cells survive energetic stress by regulating fatty acid synthesis, revealing new therapeutic targets.
Rethinking Cancer's Fuel: Scientists Create "Glycolytic-Null" Cancer Cells That Defy Conventional Wisdom
Groundbreaking research challenges cancer metabolism dogma by creating glycolytic-null cancer cells that survive without fermentative glycolysis through metabolic reprogramming.
The Achilles' Heel of Cancer: Unlocking the Secrets of Hexokinase 2
Scientists are decoding the unique structure of hexokinase 2, a key metabolic enzyme in cancer, to develop smarter, more targeted therapies.
Disarming Cancer's Sweet Tooth: How a Genetic Scissor Could Starve Tumors
Discover how scientists are using genetic scissors to target cancer's sugar addiction and develop new treatments for lung cancer.
Sweet Tooth of Cancer: How Targeting Tumor Glycolysis is Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy
Exploring how targeting tumor glycolysis through the Warburg effect is transforming cancer treatment approaches.