Apr 20, 2017
Amino acids in diet could be key to starving cancer
Posted by Steve Hill in category: biotech/medical
Starving cancer via amino acids looks like a promising approach.
Cutting out certain amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — from the diet of mice slows tumor growth and prolongs survival, according to new research published in Nature.
Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow found that removing two non-essential amino acids — serine and glycine — from the diet of mice slowed the development of lymphoma and intestinal cancer.
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