The Cancer Therapy Starves Tumors Using Your Own Fat Cells
Professor Nadav Ahituv's team engineered fat cells to soak up sugar and fat, out-competing tumors for nutrients and slowing cancer growth in mice and lab-grown breast tumor samples.
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Features on peer-reviewed research by scientists at University of California, San Francisco.
You’ve Been Told to Drink 8 Cups of Water Daily, But Does It Work?
Professor Benjamin Breyer's team reviewed randomized trials of daily water intake and found drinking more water helped mainly with weight loss and preventing repeat kidney stones.
Breaking Down the Role of Biological Sex in COVID-19 Disease Progression and Associated Cytokine Storm
Dr. Aditi Bhargava and Johannes Knapp's reanalysis of early COVID-19 patient data found that immune changes in intensive care differed by sex and that obesity was the strongest risk factor for death.