Nutrient Deprivation Kills Kidney Cancer Cells

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 08:45 in Health & Medicine

All cells need nutrients, but cancer cells are notoriously power hungry. As a result, cancer cells must alter their metabolism to provide the additional fuel needed for them to survive, grow and spread. For decades, scientists have been trying to exploit this greedy metabolism as a target for new anti-cancer therapies. Duke University researchers have […]

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