Thursday, July 6, 2017

Thwarting metastasis by breaking cancer's legs with gold rods

07/06/2017 06:39 PM EDT

a dying cancer cell with filopodia stretched out to its right

Your cancer has metastasized. No one wants to ever hear that. Now researchers have developed a method to thwart cell migration and thus halt metastasis in vitro. In past tests in vivo, the treatment has wiped out tumors with no observable signs of toxicity or recurrence.


Full story at http://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/06/26/thwarting-metastasis-breaking-cancers-legs-gold-rods

Source
Georgia Institute of Technology


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