Device monitors key step in development of tumor metastases
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
A microfluidic device may help study key steps in the process by which cancer cells break off from a primary tumor to invade other tissues and form metastases. "This device gives us a platform to be used in testing and comparing compounds to block or delay the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, potentially slowing the progression of cancer," says one researcher.