Stem Cell News
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- Prize for Professor Jeremy Brockes
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- Prof Alejandro Madrigal elected President of international body of excellence
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- Prof Peter Coffey comments on growth of stem cell research
- UCL excels at Medical Research Council applications and awards
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- UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging official opening
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- UCL Professor James Bainbridge awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorship.
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- UCL Vice-Provost (Research) responds to Open Access report
- Transplant of patient-derived stem cells into mice with muscular dystrophy
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- Pioneering windpipe boy growing into healthy teenager
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- Engineering living tissue
- Congratulations to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the 2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
Cells’ grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
4 August 2010
The
mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body has
been
discovered by scientists in the UCL Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB) - a finding that has implications for the
development of new cancer treatments.
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The study, which used embryonic cells, points to a
new way of
treating cancer where therapy is targeted at the process of cancer cells
grouping together. The aim is to stop cancer cells from spreading and
causing
secondary tumours. In order for cells to
migrate they form protrusions - much
like oars of a boat - in the direction that they want to travel.
However, if a
single cell is isolated it produces these oars in all directions and
ends up
rowing in circles. To move around effectively cells must stick together
before
attempting to travel. Dr Roberto Mayor of CDB
is the lead author of the research. He
said: “Being able to form a group with neighbour cells is advantageous
for
migration of embryonic cells as well as cancer cells during tumour
metastasis –
they have strength in unity. The findings suggest an alternative way in
which
cancer treatments might work in the future if therapies can be targeted
at the
process of group formation to stop cancer cells from spreading and
causing
secondary tumours.” |
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