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19 December 2025
Cancer is Nervous
Like healthy tissue, solid cancers become infiltrated by neurons of the peripheral nervous system (healthy pancreas shown with neurons highlighted) yet such nerves are not accounted for in molecular genetic studies of the tumour microenvironment. Here, analysing pancreatic cancer, researchers establish a neuron–cancer–microenvironment interactome and propose that denervating tumours maybe a therapeutic way forward
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Vera Thiel, Simon Renders and Jasper Panten, and colleagues
- Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM), Heidelberg, Germany
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Nature, February 2025
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