{"id":100275,"date":"2019-12-29T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cancer-cells-switch-sugar-for-fatty-acids-to-spread-around-the-body"},"modified":"2019-12-29T22:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:04:41","slug":"cancer-cells-switch-sugar-for-fatty-acids-to-spread-around-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cancer-cells-switch-sugar-for-fatty-acids-to-spread-around-the-body","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Cells Switch Sugar for Fatty Acids to Spread Around the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-cells-switch-sugar-for-fatty-acids-to-spread-around-the-body.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered a crucial change in cancer cells that allows them to spread around the body \u2013 by switching from sugar to fatty acids to fuel their growth.<\/p>\n<p>Changing their \u2018diet\u2019 in this way allows tumour cells to set up shop at new sites where resources such as glucose \u2013 their preferred food source \u2013 are limited.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that a protein called AKR1B10 helps cells adapt the ways in which they get their energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered a crucial change in cancer cells that allows them to spread around the body \u2013 by switching from sugar to fatty acids to fuel their growth. Changing their \u2018diet\u2019 in this way allows tumour cells to set up shop at new sites where resources such as glucose \u2013 their preferred food source [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}