In tiny fruit flies, researchers identify metabolic 'switch' that links normal growth to cancer
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 16:32
in Biology & Nature
Until now, researchers have known nothing about the metabolic state that occurs when cells divide during early development. Human genetics researchers show in a new study that this cell division in Drosophila depends on a metabolic state much like when cells run amok to form cancerous tumors.