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  • A Deadly Cancer Hijacks the Brain to Render Itself Untreatable, Study Finds

    A Deadly Cancer Hijacks the Brain to Render Itself Untreatable, Study Finds

    New research this week suggests that an aggressive brain cancer can hijack the brain’s own circuitry to further spread and render itself unstoppable. Researchers in Germany studied glioblastoma cells in mice and in the lab, finding that these tumours use some of the same mechanisms behind normal neuron development and migration to systematically invade the…