{"id":86565,"date":"2019-01-09T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/study-overturns-dogma-of-cancer-metabolism-theory"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T03:22:19","slug":"study-overturns-dogma-of-cancer-metabolism-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/study-overturns-dogma-of-cancer-metabolism-theory","title":{"rendered":"Study overturns dogma of cancer metabolism theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-overturns-dogma-of-cancer-metabolism-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers do not require increased glucose to power their development and growth, contrary to a long-held belief about cancer metabolism.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could bring about a better understanding of many cancers\u2019 metabolic needs and lead to the development of more effective therapies for squamous cell skin <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> and other forms of epithelial cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by senior authors Heather Christofk and Bill Lowry, was published in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-01-overturns-dogma-cancer-metabolism-theory.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;01-overturns-dogma-c...heory.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers do not require increased glucose to power their development and growth, contrary to a long-held belief about cancer metabolism. The findings could bring about a better understanding of many cancers\u2019 metabolic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86565","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}