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.
December 2008
Consortium December Update
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Intravital imaging: Illuminating metastasis.
Modelling: Coupling intracellular forces and protrusion.Science in the meltdown
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The research enterprise faces many uncertainties in the looming global recession — but it also has many strengths that may help it weather the storm. Nature investigates.
Genetics of cancer relapse revealed
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Cancer cells that cause the recurrence of a type of childhood leukaemia are often already present in patients when they are first diganosed with the disease.
Human genomes in minutes?
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DNA-sequencing technology that allows sequencing an entire human genomes in minutes will not be available until about 2013.
Boost for work on deadliest forms of cancer
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Over the next five years Cancer Research UK will fund 20 new research centres that will work on pancreatic, lung and oesophageal cancer.
Nature Milestones in Cytoskeleton
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Nature Milestones in Cytoskeleton has been launched. A collaboration between Nature, Nature Cell Biology and Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, this collection of work focuses on the last 60 years of groundbreaking advances in cytoskeleton research.
