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Monocarboxylate Transporter 1’s Facilitation of Cancer Cell Activity
By Rachel Hull, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, ’19
Author’s note
I originally wrote this paper for my Biological Systems class, the instructor of which was interested in researching the physiological role of monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1). He instructed his students to write an essay exploring this role in any way they wanted, and I chose to focus on the link between MCT1 and cancer. I enjoyed sifting through multiple strands of evidence for the reasons behind this link — strands that oftentimes were not in agreement with one another.