Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
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communications offices.
A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away from a tumor and spread the disease elsewhere in the body.
May 26, 2017 Tags: cancer cells, cancer migration, cancer research, metastasis, tumor treatment
| Category: biology, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a lab device to give cancer researchers an unprecedented microscopic look at metastasis, the complex way that tumor cells spread through the body, causing more than 90 percent of cancer-related deaths. By shedding light on precisely how tumor cells travel, the device could uncover new ways to keep cancer in check.
October 30, 2014 Tags: cancer migration, cancer research, how tumors spread, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, materials science, metastasis
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
Because of results seen in flat lab dishes, biologists have believed that cancers cells move through the body in a slow, aimless fashion, resembling an intoxicated person who cannot walk three steps in a straight line. This pattern, called a random walk, may hold true for cells traveling across two-dimensional lab containers, but Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that for cells moving through three-dimensional spaces within the body, the “drunken” model doesn’t hold true.
March 11, 2014 Tags: biomolecular engineering, cancer cells, cancer migration, cell movement, metastasis, random walk
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
