Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered a way to get rid of pancreatic cancer in mice by putting them on a high fat, or ketogenic, diet and giving them cancer therapy. The team made the ...

Fasting for 24 hours twice a week boosts the cancer-fighting abilities of specific immune cells called natural killer cells, according to a new study. The findings open up a number of options for ...

Omer Yilmaz, an associate professor of biology and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, has been studying the effects of fasting in rodents for years. In 2018 he and his ...

Cancer kills more than 500,000 Americans each year. But today, thanks to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, UC San Francisco researchers are revolutionizing what we thought we knew about how ...

Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting observed by Muslims, is a period of deep spiritual reflection, prayer, and ...

A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles. Stephen D. Hursting is in the Department ...