UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered that brain tumours are capable of burning acetate for fuel, providing a new potential target for halting tumour growth.  The opensource study is published in the journal Cell. The medical community are currently investigating what fuels cancer cell growth. For more than 75 years, researchers have known that cancer cells use glucose as the major fuel, but efforts to … Continue reading Neuro-oncologists discover cancer cells can burn acetate for fuel.