One state represented the metabolism of a growing cancer cell characterized by aerobic glycolysis and cellular biosynthesis (condition H), while the other (condition L) represented the same metabolic network with a reduced glycolytic rate, a reduced lactic acid production, but a higher MPM, as reported in literature in relation to a lower activity of PI3K/Akt/mTOR (DeBerardinis et al., 2008). The gene discussed is MTOR; the disease is cancer.