Cholesterol starvation kills lymphoma cells
Drug is being developed for clinical trials Drug selectively attacks cancer cells, leaves normal cells unharmed CHICAGO --- Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a novel therapy to trick cancer cells into gobbling up what they think is their favorite food - cholesterol - which actually triggers their destruction. What appears to them as a cholesterol-loaded particle is actually a synthetic nanoparticle that binds to the cancer cells and starves them to death. Although the resea...
Source: eurekalert.org