Thursday, 12 December 2013

HEALTH: Forcing cancer cells to shape-shift stops them from migrating, Mayo Clinic researchers find

"The researchers found that a protein called Syx is key to determining how tumor cells migrate. When researchers removed Syx from the cancer cells, they lost their polarity — their leading and trailing edges — and morphed into a “fried egg” shape. “They are now unable to sense direction, so they are not going anywhere,” Dr. Anastasiadis says." kurzweilai.net

Forcing cancer cells to shape-shift stops them from migrating, Mayo Clinic researchers find

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