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Spotlight: Oct 21, 2021

A new study has found that a diet that cuts off cells’ supplies of lipids can slow the growth of tumors in mice. “There's a lot of evidence that diet can affect how fast your cancer progresses, but this is not a cure,” Matthew Vander Heiden notes.

Oct 21, 2021

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