'Game theory' model reveals vulnerable moments for metastatic cancer cells' energy production
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 22:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Cancer’s no game, but researchers are borrowing ideas from evolutionary game theory to learn how cells cooperate within a tumor to gather energy. Their experiments, they say, could identify the ideal time to disrupt metastatic cancer cell cooperation and make a tumor more vulnerable to anti-cancer drugs.