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Metastasize: A dread word with a normal background

News: Major Disease Cures    March 30, 2010
Until researched by Enrique Martín Blanco, at the Institute of Biology of Barcelona (Spain), it was somehow felt that cancers metastasize (spread) because of some inherent characteristic of cancer cells. Now it has been shown that the ability to metastasize is common to most cells – a normal capacity – that happens to be useful [...]
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Nanoparticles identify metastasized cancer cells

News: Nanomedicine    February 1, 2010
One of the more common techniques evolving from the use of nanoparticles to study cell biology is the ability to ‘tag’ cells with colored (dyed) nanoparticles. In an important application of this technique, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) have been able to tag cancer cells that travel in the blood of mice [...]
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