A “mirror” molecule can starve cancer cells without harming healthy cells
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Researchers from Geneva and Marburg universities discovered that D-cysteine, a mirror-image version of the amino acid cysteine, can selectively starve cancer cells by blocking a critical enzyme in their mitochondria while leaving healthy cells unharmed, since only certain cancer cells have the specific transporter needed to absorb this molecule.
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