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Metabolism in 'the driver's seat

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It is increasingly accepted that metabolic changes in cancer cells can drive tumour formation. The finding that the SIRT6 protein suppresses tumour formation by regulating metabolism adds weight to this view.

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  1. Luisa Tasselli and Katrin F. Chua are in the Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism, Stanford University School of Medicine; and at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.,

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Tasselli, L., Chua, K. Metabolism in 'the driver's seat. Nature 492, 362–363 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/492362a

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