News
A collection of the very latest news items relevant to the cell migration community, selected from the CMC, news@nature.com and journals from the Nature family.
September 2008

Consortium September Update
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Adhesion assembly and maturation: A dendritic actin task.
Cell Biology: Studying protein functions with CALI.
One-sided gene action boosts cancer risk
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Colorectal study points to genetic susceptibility.

Natural selection: The evolution of cancer
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Evolutionary biology theories are now being applied to the study of cancer.

When good cells turn bad
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Non-cancerous breast cells can migrate through the bloodstream, settle in the lungs, and later form tumours.

Ten diseases in a dish
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Researchers have reprogrammed cells from patients with 10 different conditions into stem cells in order to obtain cell lines that can be used as disease models.
