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While I have not yet found a satisfactory description of his research methods, I am aware that at the Nobel Prize winning biologist Otto Heinrich Warburg believed at least from 1924 to 1966 that cancer cells generate their ATP primarily from anaerobic metabolism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1931.*
If supplied with the same amounts of the same reagents healthy cells use to make ATP, can tumors make as much ATP as healthy cells? What I am wondering is whether tumors' low rate of aerobic metabolism is due to a poverty of supply or an intrinsic inability.
*http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1931/warburg.html
If supplied with the same amounts of the same reagents healthy cells use to make ATP, can tumors make as much ATP as healthy cells? What I am wondering is whether tumors' low rate of aerobic metabolism is due to a poverty of supply or an intrinsic inability.
*http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1931/warburg.html