Exosomes: The cancer cell communication mechanism – News-Medical.net

Professor Deborah Goberdhan speaks to News-Medical about her team’s latest research into cancer cells, and the mechanisms they use to communicate and adapt to stress.
What provoked your research into cancer cells and their communication?
I was unexpectedly provoked into cancer research during my doctoral studies, through the discovery of some remarkable tumor-like overgrowths in flies carrying an unidentified mutation.  The culprit turned out to be the fly equivalent of PTEN, which had just be…

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