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Starving cancer through sugar deprivation. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Breakthrough in brain cancer treatment: starving cancer cells causes them to burn themselves

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Brain cancer cells. On the right: cells in which the gene coding for 4EBP was silenced that failed to grow a tumor, on the left: the control cells in which a tumor is detected. Credit: Dr. Tal Levy

Glucose starvation also as an anti-cancer treatment

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A new approach to treating brain cancer forces glucose-starved cancer tumor cells to burn themselves out. The method was developed in the laboratory of Prof. Barak Rothblatt at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev and is based on a decade of research
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