The Record

Fat vs. sugar in fight against cancer

For decades, scientists have thought cancer cells fuel their growth by soaking up glucose from the blood, using its energy and atoms to crank out duplicate sets of cellular components. But is this really true? Work in a university metabolomics lab suggests not.

Writer Daniel Mendelsohn to speak next week

Writer Daniel Mendelsohn will give an Assembly Series lecture, “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” next week. Mendelsohn, the 2016 Biggs Lecturer in the Classics, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium.

Children’s book raises mental health awareness

A new children’s book aims to destigmatize psychiatry and kids who receive mental health services. Child psychiatrist Mini Tandon, DO, felt this important topic was missing from kids’ bookshelves, so she wrote her own tale.