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Article: Einstein researchers develop a new way to study how breast cancer spreads.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- December 11, 2008
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November 09, 2008Bronx, NY In a breakthrough study appearing in advance online publication of Nature Methods, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University describe for the first time a method of viewing individual breast cancer cells for several days at a time. The study, by scientists in Einstein's Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, provides detail on how cancer cells invade surrounding tissue and reach blood vessels. These movements are the first steps of the potentially deadly stage of cancer known as metastasis (see also Albert Einstein College of Medicine).
The new method of viewing cancer cells over several days in their natural ...