New Drug Turns Cancer’s Favorite Fuel Into a Deadly Weakness

Researchers have developed a compound that attacks cancer cells in two ways by exploiting their demand for sugar while blocking their backup fuel supply. Cancer cells survive in part by consuming large amounts of sugar to power their rapid growth. Rather than trying to starve them of that fuel, researchers have developed an experimental compound [...] Explore the content:


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