Once in the brain, lung cancer cells can plug themselves into the electrical circuitry there and grow, a study of mice shows. The results, published September 10 in Nature, highlight the deep and mysterious connections between cancer and the brain.
“It’s beautiful work,” says neuroimmunologist Sebastien Talbot of Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. “It was very interesting to see how these tumors get reprogrammed, and that allows them to actually form this electrical connection with brain neurons.”
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