4-Feb-2025
How hungry fat cells could someday starve cancer to death
University of California - San FranciscoPeer-Reviewed Publication
Liposuction and plastic surgery aren’t often mentioned in the same breath as cancer.
But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors of nutrition.
Researchers at UC San Francisco used the gene editing technology CRISPR to turn ordinary white fat cells into “beige” fat cells, which voraciously consume calories to make heat.
- Journal
- Nature Biotechnology
- Funder
- UCSF Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research, UCSF Living Therapeutics Initiative, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine