Cancer Cells Become Vulnerable at Acidic pH

Scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), University of Maryland, and the MOFFIT report that cancer cells proliferate less and in a less robust manner when their internal pH is lowered, i.e., it becomes more acidic. This finding offers opportunities for new therapeutic approaches to tackle the disease, according to the team who published their study (“ Systems analysis of intracellular pH vulnerabilities for cancer therapy ”) in Nature