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In Profile: Starving cells of glucose could help cure cancer

Scientists have identified that glucose fuels the growth of cancer. The particular protein that fuels this growth is PARP14. They hope to create a drug which inhibits PARP 14, starves the cancerous cells and, in the future, can be used to cure cancer

In Profile: Starving cells of glucose could help cure cancer
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Scientists have identified that glucose fuels the growth of cancer. The particular protein in glucose that fuels this growth is PARP 14. The scientists hope to create a drug which inhibits PARP 14, starves the cancerous cells and, in the future, can be used to cure cancer

The two co-principal investigators Dr Concetta Bubici (left) and Dr Salvatore Papa (right)

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