Possible new mechanism for aspirin's role in cancer prevention
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
A new technique called metabolite profiling has been used by scientists to identify a biochemical pathway previously unknown to be regulated by aspirin. Specifically, the researchers found that aspirin substantially decreases the level of a chemical called 2-hydroxyglutarate in the blood of healthy volunteers and in two colorectal cancer cell lines.