A new tactic for starving tumors

Health Problems

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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Reviving the protector—new tactic against medulloblastoma

Health Problems

Scientists have a new tactic with potential for fighting medulloblastoma, the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumor in children. The results are scheduled for publication in Cancer Cell. Several emerging anticancer treatments are called “epigenetic therapies,” targeting the ways cancer cells shut off genes that could restrain their growth. The new tactic revives a protective gene called […]

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