Pipe 2SZ Fishing rod reels brain tumour cells to their death

Fishing rod reels brain tumour cells to their death

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Bellamkonda's team grafted human glioblastoma tumours into rat brains. They then inserted the rod into the tumour, with the gel sitting just above the surface of the skull. After 15 days, the majority of the tumour cells had migrated along the fibre to meet their doom.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25063-fishing-rod-reels-brain-tumour-cells-to-their-death.html
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Not a very complete story (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-02-20 07:24 (#34)

If anyone wants to rewrite this, please go for it. I expanded his other submission quite a bit before posting it, but I'd prefer to code the website than do some major editing ATM.