On 24th February, a research group, led by Dr Shawn Hingten at the University of North Carolina, announced they had developed a method of using a patient’s own skin cells in order to hunt down and target cancer cells in the brain. This novel method transforms skin cells into brain stem cells, with the ability…
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Discovery in breast cancer metastasis research
Some of the worst news you can get when you have been diagnosed with cancer is that is has spread, a process known scientifically as metastasis. This is where some cells break off from the original tumour and use the circulatory system as a method of transportation to get to and invade tissue in a…