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Inaction on Interaction

30 June 2025

Inaction on Interaction

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is a cancer originating from blood cell-forming progenitors of the bone marrow (BM). Unlike normal blood progenitors which polarise towards (thus changing shape) to engage with the nurturing BM substrate or stromal cells (the site known as the niche), AML cells interact with, but their contents fail to polarise towards, the niche. This finding has possible prognostic and therapeutic significance and implies an important role for polarisation in the normal state

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Written by Lindsey Goff

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