Closing the "tunnel of cells" to slow cancer
Recent research has uncovered an especially aggressive mechanism for the spread of a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer, in which the NUP93 protein plays a key role. Because this protein creates a "tunnel" in the nuclear membrane (https://www.creative-biolabs.com/membrane-protein-preparation-as-antigen-for-antibody-discovery.html), the cancer can gain access to the cell's DNA and exploit it to satisfy its own goals, such as increasing the cell's ability to migrate