#Cancer spread cut by 75% in tests
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38582007
Researchers created 810 sets of genetically modified lab mice to discover which sections of the DNA were involved in the body resisting a cancer’s spread.
The animals were injected with melanomas (skin cancer) and the team counted the number of tumours that formed in the lung.
Their hunt led them to discover 23 sections of DNA, or genes, that made it either easier or harder for a cancer to spread.
Many of them were involved in controlling the immune system.
Targeting one #gene - called Spns2 - led to a three-quarters reduction in tumours spreading to the lungs.