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jesus that title's misleading. THe actual paper is about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect Warburg
by hprotagonist 9y ago
jesus that title's misleading.
THe actual paper is about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect Warburg effect (the observation that cancerous cells rely heavily on glycolysis). People have wondered about causation, and this group has offered some mechanistic answers that help get us closer to knowing if glycolysis spikes _because_ you have cancer, or you get cancer because you lean on glycolysis.
- banachtarski 9y agoI read your post, and while the nuance is a bit different, it's not that misleading relative to your understanding of it. And they cite the Warburg effect plenty. I think showing that it is causative instead of correlative is in effect showing how sugar exacerbates cancer.
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoAs the GP, I do not think the title is correct. The Warburg effect does not tell that sugar causes cancer, it tells that cancer cells prefer one of the two mechanisms to create ATP. This mechanism is the glycolysis (something used in fermentation), which is much less effective than the other mechanism which uses oxygen (used indeed in respiration) to produce ATP. From the article abstract, they hint that the cell cycle is quicker with glycolyse than with respiration.