Study links liver cells’ serine supply to pancreatic cancer metastasis in the liver
Nature reports that metastatic pancreatic cancer lacking an enzyme needed to make serine can reprogram hepatocytes, or liver cells, to produce the amino acid.
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A Nature research paper says pancreatic cancer in the liver that lacks an enzyme needed to make serine can reprogram liver cells to produce it. The paper says that serine supply promotes liver metastasis.
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