“While healthy cells are able to make sufficient serine and glycine, cancer cells are much more dependent on getting these vital amino acids from the diet.”
“This is a really interesting look at how cutting off the supply of nutrients essential to cancer cell growth and division could help restrain tumors.”
“Serine and glycine are biosynthetically linked, and together provide the essential precursors for the synthesis of proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids that are crucial to cancer cell growth.”