New genetic program converts static cells into mobile invasive cells
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have identified the gene GATA 6 as responsible for epithelial cells -which group together and are static- losing adhesion and moving towards a new site. This process, which is common to developing organisms, is very similar to one that occurs in metastasis, when tumor cells escape from the original tumor and invade new tissue.