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Cancer metastasis

Metastasizing tumor cells
Cancer research
Startup founders from Johns Hopkins aim to stop spread of cancer
Published July 28, 2021
AbMeta Therapeutics, launched by biologist and Provost Denis Wirtz, bioengineer Jamie Spangler, and clinician Elizabeth Jaffee, will combine years of pioneering research to create new drugs that target metastasis
Illustration of cancer cell
Cancer research
Protein appears to prevent tumor cells from spreading via blood vessels
Published July 14, 2021
Johns Hopkins researchers identify a key protein in the regulation of cancer metastasis
Metastatic cancer cells
Cancer research
New test can target and capture most lethal cells in fatal brain cancer
Published Oct 26, 2020
The method could lead to better therapeutics for treating glioblastoma or help better identify those with aggressive forms of the disease
Ashani Weeraratna
Interdisciplinary scholar
Ashani Weeraratna named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Published July 2, 2019
She comes from the Wistar Institute, where she leads a lab studying the effect aging has on cancer metastasis
Cancer cells
Biomolecular engineering
Cell mechanics and the study of cancer
Published Sept 4, 2018
Denis Wirtz, vice provost for research, says unifying the field of cell mechanics around a common set of approaches will make it more valuable to the larger cancer research community
Red cell escapes green boundary
Breast cancer
A dynamic cellular defense against metastasis
Published Aug 2, 2018
In study of mouse tissue, scientists discover that cells around breast milk ducts can reach out to grab stray cancer cells to prevent their spread
illustration of a wolf
Cancer and the artillery of physics
Published Spring 2018
Andrew Ewald is at the vanguard of a generation of scientists determined to uncover the complexities of cancer / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Ovarian cancer originates in fallopian tubes
Published Oct 23, 2017
Researcher says treatment for deadly disease may have stalled in part because scientists 'have been studying the wrong tissue of origin' / Hopkins Medicine
Left image shows orderly structure and brown objects located on the exterior of a cell; right image shows random clusters of brown objects throughout purple cellular structures
Cancer research
Identifying cancerous 'shape shifters'
Published Aug 11, 2017
Scientists from Kimmel Cancer Center identify gene that affects prostate cancer's ability to change shape, squeeze into other organs / Hopkins Medicine