Read the whole article by Shawna Williams here in The Scientist.
Researchers find connective tissue has a crucial role to play in whether cancer cells metastasize
EDITOR’S CHOICE IN CANCER BIOLOGY
The paper
Kshitiz et al., “Evolution of placental invasion and cancer metastasis are causally linked,” Nat Ecol Evol, 3:1743–53, 2019.
The study was conceived like a cliché joke: an evolutionary biologist, a cell-signaling specialist, and a cancer researcher walk into a happy hour at Yale University. The conversation turned to mammalian tumors, and how it was common to see horses in Austria and cows in India with prominent tumors that rarely killed the animals.