How one amino acid might help fight colon cancer and infections
Studies in mice show that dietary arginine reduces tumor formation and viral load
After SARS-CoV-2 infection, mice that had been fed a low arginine diet had more virus (yellow) in their lungs (cell nuclei shown in blue) compared with those fed a high arginine diet (right).
Q. Wu et al/Cell 2026
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