Brain cancer: Hunger for amino acids makes it more aggressive

Monday, June 24, 2013 - 11:00 in Biology & Nature

To fuel phases of fast and aggressive growth, tumors need higher-than-normal amounts of energy and the molecular building blocks needed to build new cellular components. Cancer cells therefore...

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