Cancer cells: how do migration and accumulation happen?

A recent international study may have uncovered the explanation for how tumors travel and attract. The cancer cells they have the ability to sense the rigidity of the environment. Their freedom of movement depends on the environment. Research has shown that they may have a weak point of stiffness (a point not too hard and not too soft). This point allows you to have better traction and move faster, which affects the direction of movement. Cancer cells have always been thought to move in rather rigid environments. Now it has been discovered that they prefer the weak point of stiffness.

The research team looked at brain and breast cancers. He placed the cancer cells in a stiffer and softer area. Then they looked at them to see where they were gathering. They found that breast cancer cells adhere more to harsh environments, as in previous studies. However, if this original genetic mechanism is deactivated, they are directed to the central part.

We are basically decoding the way cancer cells invade tissues. They don’t just move randomly, but they have certain ways that they like to move, and if we can figure that out, we may be able to thwart their development.

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The first goal for researchers is to build a simulator showing the movement of cancer cells throughout the cancer. Here, so we will understand their movement based on their respective environment.