Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage

Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage

Sugar helps cancer cells regulate voltage

Researchers in an attempt to understand why Cancers will hold onto sugar yet not use it as fuel discovered that Cancer Cells use sugar as a sort of voltage regulator.

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