Causing brain cancer cells to burn out

Prof Barak Rotblat of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University is making brain cancer cells self-destruct by increasing their growth rate while shutting down their glucose energy source. He is working with BGN Technologies to block 4EBP1, a protein that regulates cancer to survive glucose starvation.

https://www.bgu.ac.il/en/news-and-articles/rotblat-glucose-starvation/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48386-y

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