Proteases also give cancer cells the ability to create new passageways in tissues. For example, they can break down the junctions that join cells together, thereby gaining access to new territories.

However, tumors grow in environments where nutrients are scarce. Researchers from New York University have uncovered that cancer cells also work together to source nutrients from their environment — a ...

brain scans and even cancer cells. Armed with such an uncanny array of materials, the acclaimed French artist constructs ever-mutating ecosystems, where the living and nonliving, creatures and ...

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Scientists are using artificial intelligence to better capture how healthy cells surrounding tumors influence cancer cell behavior ... which cells tend to be together, and which ones are rarely ...