Researchers Have a Better Idea of How Cancer Cells Move and Grow (IMAGE)

University of Montreal

Researchers Have a Better Idea of How Cancer Cells Move and Grow

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Researchers at the University of Montreal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) have discovered a new mechanism that allows some cells in our body to move together, in some ways like the tortoise formation used by Roman soldiers depicted in the Asterix series.

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Université de Montréal

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