Some Cancer Cells Exploit Neuronal Signaling To Metastasize – Technology Networks

Tumors come in many shapes and forms–curable or deadly, solid or liquid, lodged inside the brain, bone, or other tissues. One thing they all have in common, however, is a knack for molecular deceit. It is often by posing as normal cells, or by hijacking them, that cancer cells advance their takeover of biological systems and learn to grow, survive, and spread to new organs.
Recently, Rockefeller scientists found that breast and lung tumors can appropriate a signaling pathway used by neurons to…

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