Cancer cells use secret tunnels to communicate and smuggle cancer signals their neighbors
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 18:50
in Biology & Nature
A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown channels to communicate with one another and with adjacent non-cancerous cells. Not only does this cast an important light on how cancer metastasizes and recruits cellular material from healthy cells, but it also suggests that these physical channels might be exploitable to deliver drug therapies.