Prostate cancer: Starving out the enemy

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An old military tactic, widely used in Roman and medieval times, is now being put to good use in cancer research. The idea is that if you starve out your enemy—they will either submit or die. And in the race to develop treatments for prostate cancer, starving out those hostile cancer cells is proving effective. Metabolic biologist at the University […]

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A new tactic for starving tumors

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A tumor’s goal is simple: to grow, grow, grow, by making more cancer cells. But that often means growing so fast that the oxygen supply gets scarce, at which point cells within the tumor start to suffocate. Without oxygen, these ever-dividing cells struggle to make enough aspartate, a crucial ingredient in many cellular processes. That’s the scenario worked out by […]

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