Tiny tumour detective

The researchers at the
The programme’s principal investigator Dr. Condeelis previously used a multiphoton confocal microscope to directly observe cellular interactions in the tumour microenvironment of live animal models of breast cancer. By placing an artificial blood vessel near tumours, he was able to collect motile cancer cells for study and to predict by the presence or absence of certain signalling molecules whether the tumour cells have the potential to metastasise.
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