Learning how cancer cells coordinate and collaborate to multiply and metastasize

(Osaka University) Researchers from Osaka University and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have cultured epithelial-like cancer cells on an artificial substrate and observed their collaborative self-organization into network structures that may function as nutritional conduits and provide vascular access. Understanding of the parameters that govern this coordinated behavior, including the various forces responsible, may explain tumor growth and metastasis, thus providing a basis for developing new anticancer drugs.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news