Vanderbilt team upends century-old observation (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Vanderbilt team upends century-old observation

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(left to right) Kimryn Rathmell, Bradley Reinfeld, Matthew Madden and Jeffrey Rathmell have discovered that immune cells -- not cancer cells -- are the major glucose consumers in the tumor microenvironment, upending a century-old observation.

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