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Starving cancer: dietary modifications may enhance cancer therapy

We all obsess about our fitness and health and a critical part of it is how and what we eat. Healthy nutrition is not only important for our look, but also linked to all aspects of physiology and disease. Recent years have seen a surge... click to read more

Boryana Petrova | Staff scientist at Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA

nutrition

cancer

metabolism

Anti-cancer therapy

Reading time 2.5 min

published on Feb 15, 2021

Gut microbes transform the food and the drugs we ingest

Microbes in the human gut play essential roles in maintaining human health. Gut microbes carry out many of these roles using a large toolkit of enzymes that can metabolize and transform larger, complex compounds into smaller compounds. Microbial enzymes breakdown many compounds from the human... click to read more

Leah Guthrie | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, United States

metabolism

gut microbiota

chemical similarity

toxicity

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jan 30, 2020