Typically, it is not an ideal situation for a person to spend a portion of their birthday in the kitchen. However, for Mentor resident Shannon Browne, it was an absolutely ideal Saturday afternoon spending birthday time with her daughter, Faith, at the Cooking With Kids: Mom and Me High Tea class at the Loretta Paganini […]
Colliding Cancer Cells Speed Up and Squeeze Past but Normal Cells Slow Down and Go Another Way
February 22, 2021
“Biologists and physicists who study motility have mainly focused on investigating how large collectives comprising hundreds or thousands of cells coordinate their movements,” said David Brückner, doctoral student in the lab of Chase Broedersz, PhD, associate professor of theoretical biophysics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam.
“We wanted to know how pairs of cells interact when they come into contact and set out to analyze their behavior using the methods of statistical physics.”
All biological processes involve the movement of cells. And when cells move en masse, they are bound to encounter each other. During embryonic development, cells communicate with their neighbors to find their place in the growing organism. When wounds heal, cells pick up cues to move into lesions and regenerate lost or da