Reaven discovered that in some people cells ignore insulin's instructions to let sugars in.

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Fattom's solution was to link the sugars to a larger carrier protein, in this case an inactivated bacteria called Pseudomonas.

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The drug, developed through Cancer Research UK's Clinical Development Partnerships (CDP), starves cancer cells of the sugars they need to grow and develop.

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In the late 1990s the pair cofounded Shree Renuka Sugars in Belgaum, a trading hub near the border of Karnataka and Maharashtra, the country's top sugarcane-producing states.

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