linkurl:1. Group invasion;http://f1000.com/7857958?key=413ncdvw3klczry Cancer cells invade en mass when actomyosin is downregulated at cell-cell contacts. Blocking that downregulation by depleting a cell matrix adhesion protein called DDR1 leads to increased actomyosin activity and poor cancer cell migration.C. Hidalgo-Carcedo, et al., "Collective cell migration requires suppression of actomyosin at cell-cell contacts mediated by DDR1 and the cell polarity regulators Par3 and Par6," linkurl:Nat Cell Bio,;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/21170030?dopt=Abstract&holding=f1000%2Cf1000m 13:49-58, 2011. Evaluations by Adi Dubash and Kathleen J Green, Northwestern Univ Med School; Roberto Mayor, Univ College London; Martin A Schwartz, Univ of Virginia; Michael Dohn and Albert Reynolds, Vanderbilt University; Richard Klemke, Univ of California, San Diego. linkurl:Free F1000 Evaluation;http://f1000.com/7857958?key=413ncdvw3klczry
linkurl:2. Slime mold complexity;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/58047/A simple slime mold may not be as dissimilar from complex multicellular creatures as previously assumed. When the single-celled organisms...
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