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EMT: Cancer Cells Grow On Microchip

EMT: Cancer Cells Grow On Microchip

Nobody wants to be diagnosed with any form of cancer, but scientists in search of more effective treatments are studying those nasty cancer cells in new and exciting ways.

In an article in Gizmodo you can watch cancer cells scurry across the surface of a microchip. It’s an image of a process called epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).

“For this study, published in the journal Nature Materials, researchers were able to image cancer cells that had undergone epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process in which epithelial cells, which tend to stick together within a tissue, change into mesenchymal cells, which then disperse and migrate individually. This, explains EurekaAlert, is a beneficial process that allows cells to travel throughout an embryo and establish specialized tissues. For this study, the cells migrated across a device that mimics the tissue surrounding a tumor.”

Photo: Gizmodo

Test The WiFi Before You Go

Test The WiFi Before You Go

WiFi is here to stay until someone figures out something better, so naturally it has become an important part of a hotel’s services. Unfortunately many hotels still charge extra for it, and whopping fees at that.  Even if you’re willing to pay for it, you want to make sure you’re getting your money’s worth. Naturally, there’s an app for that. Gizmodo wrote about SpeedSpot and Hotel WiFi Test and tells us “the website will use your internet location to check your approximate location—you’ll have to grant it permission in your browser, first—and then you select your hotel from a list of suggestions. It’ll check your speed and figure the results into the rating.”

Photo: gunes t via Flickr