Daily Archives:October 10, 2017

Rain, rain go away, little amoebas want to race

Soil living amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum has been used as a leading model organism for studying eukaryotic cell differentiation and directional cell migration. These functions are interconnected: starved Dictyostelium cells form multicellular aggregates by directional cell migration, and

Altered expression of a protein in high vs. low spreading cancer cells

Breast cancer cells start off growing in the breast and end up spreading to the lung, liver, bones and brain. This spreading to another organ is called metastasis and is the major cause of patient death due