Starving leukemia to induce differentiation

A new study shows that fasting induces the differentiation and elimination of some types of leukemia in mice, which implicates fasting or its mimetics as a novel strategy for the treatment of this disease.

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Main Authors: Cheng, Chia-Wei (Contributor), Yilmaz, Omer (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-13T19:13:08Z.
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