Cancer cells remodel their environment to make it easier to reach nearby blood vessels.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 07:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study from MIT reveals how cancer cells take some of their first steps away from their original tumor sites. This spread, known as metastasis, is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. Studying mice, the researchers found that cancer cells with a particular version of the Mena protein, called MenaINV (invasive), are able […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net