Sentences with phrase «cells cluster together»

Cancerous cells cluster together to form a mass called a tumor and can spread throughout the body to other, more distant areas.

Not exact matches

Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

But according to Michael McKeown, a developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, fru's presence in nine small clusters of fly nerve cells — including several previously mapped by Hall as «courtship centers» — may begin to give researchers «a handle on how the neural circuits that generate complex behaviors are put together.»

The researchers hope that a better understanding of how Ras proteins cluster together and interact with other proteins in cells will bring them one step closer to developing therapeutic targets for Ras - driven tumors.

Gorfe's computer simulations showed Ras proteins cluster together, or form aggregates, on the cell membrane.

Together, these findings suggested that controlling the brain might be a simple matter of delivering the right jolt of electricity to the right clusters of brain cells.

While this undoubtedly represents progress, image - processing methods have struggled to analyse high - grade breast cancer cells as these cells are often clustered together and have vague boundaries, which makes successful detection extremely challenging.

These abnormal cells usually cluster together to form a tumor.