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Tumour cells on neighbourhood watch

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The discovery of microtube structures that link tumour cells in some invasive brain tumours reveals how these cancers spread, and how they resist treatment. See Article p.93

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Figure 1: A network of neighbours.

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  1. Harald Sontheimer is at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Glial Biology in Health, Disease & Cancer Center, Roanoke, Virginia 24016, USA.,

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Sontheimer, H. Tumour cells on neighbourhood watch. Nature 528, 49–50 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15649

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