Science > Physics > Similarities between tumour growth and the physics of splashing waterdrops
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Similarities between tumour growth and the physics of splashing waterdrops |
Splashing out against tumours
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/10/9/1
18 October 2006
Similarities between tumour growth and the physics of splashing water
drops have been used by researchers in the US and Italy to predict
how cancer invades healthy tissue. This has led them to propose
clinical management strategies for the treatment of invasive tumours
(arXiv.org physics/0610040).
Some water drops splash into multiple jets after striking a solid
surface while others remain intact -- and physicists have been
successful at predicting this behaviour using surprisingly simple
equations. These equations have been adapted by Thomas Deisboeck of
the Harvard-MIT Center for Biomedical Imaging in the US and
colleagues at Italy's University of Turin, who observed that
this splash/no splash behaviour is exhibited by some cancers. Tumours
either send out multiple (and often deadly) invasive tentacles into
surrounding healthy tissue, or they do not.
See: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/10/9/1
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