Good cellular neighbors combat incipient cancers
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 13:52
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have spent decades studying the nature of tumor cells, but few have looked to see what was happening in the surrounding tissue. When researchers took a closer look at skin cells, they discovered the unaffected neighbor cells are not helplessly awaiting invasion of cancer cells but acting like cellular police, actively correcting tissue flaws created by their aberrant neighbors, the investigators report.