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Starving the beast
NSF-funded chemist Chuan He from the University of Chicago found that depriving cancer cells of copper keeps them from growing, much like this artistic representation that shows cancer cells with copper within, on the left, and how they diminish when copper is withheld, on the right.
Credit: Trinka Kensill, National Science Foundation
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