How to wake a sleeping cancer cell -- and why you might want to

(Garvan Institute of Medical Research) Cancer cells that lie 'snoozing' in the skeleton can be awakened by changes in the bone that surrounds them, Australian scientists have shown. In a world first, researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have used state-of-the-art microscopy techniques to watch cancer cells sleep within living bone over a period of months. They show that cancer cells can be 'woken up' when bone tissue is broken down around them, suggesting new possibilities f...