A geneticist at the Salk Institute discusses his incredible discoveries. The relationship between metabolism, cancer, and genetics was for decades obscured in part by chance, but in the last decade, ...

Cells respire—they consume oxygen and glucose to produce energy in the form of ATP. When oxygen is not available, cells in differentiated tissues break glucose down into lactate (through glycolysis) ...

James Inglese knew he had to choose carefully. It was 2004, and Inglese, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC), had a plan that could save time and ...