Lactic acid found to fuel tumours

Friday, November 21, 2008 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

A team of researchers at Duke University Medical Centre and the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL) has found that lactic acid is an important energy source for tumour cells. In further experiments, they discovered a new way to destroy the most hard-to-kill, dangerous tumour cells by preventing them from delivering lactic acid...

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