Cancer cells’ “self eating” may be new drug target
Channel: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 2019-07-01

Researchers reveal how pancreatic cancer cells adapt to the low energy environment of a tumor: by eating their own mitochondria! Now, by targeting this process, researchers hope to halt cancer cell proliferation.

Learn more at: https://www.cshl.edu/cancer-cells-self-eating-tactic-may-be-its-weakness/