Scientists use diabetes drug in double hit to starve cancer cells

Monday, August 29, 2011 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- UK scientists have discovered how blocking a key controller of energy production in cancer cells and treating them with a diabetes drug, metformin, effectively starves cancer cells. The research1 is published today (Sunday) in Nature Cell Biology.

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