Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer to grow more quickly, a study has found.

Fructose consumption has increased considerably over the past five decades, largely due to the widespread use of high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in beverages and ultra-processed foods. New ...

Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences and a professor of genetics and of medicine at the School of Medicine, all at WashU. Fructose consumption has ...

The liver breaks down dietary fructose into lipids that are used by cancer cells to boost their growth in mice. As the small intestine and liver metabolize most of the dietary fructose, the team ...

Fructose can be healthy as part of a balanced diet. However, the effect of fructose on human health has been a source of controversy due to people consuming more of it than ever. This is due to the ...