How vitamin B2 could pave the way to new cancer therapies

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The human body cannot produce vitamin B2—also known as riboflavin—itself; it must absorb the important substance through diet. The vitamin can be found in dairy products, eggs, meat and green vegetables. The metabolism converts it into molecules that protect the cell from oxidative damage, among other functions. Researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Centre (RVZ) at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) have discovered that this function of the vitamin also has a downside: it also protects cancer cells.

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