🚨 New insights from cancer neuroscience! 🧠🧬
A groundbreaking Nature study reveals that cancer cells can steal mitochondria from nearby neurons via tunneling nanotubes — supercharging their metabolism, stemness, and metastatic potential 🌪️💥
Using a clever tool called MitoTRACER, researchers traced this "mitochondrial hijack" across cancers (breast, prostate, melanoma) and showed that recipient cells were more likely to seed distant metastases — especially in the brain 🧳🧠
🧪 Targeting this nerve–tumor energy axis may open new doors to stop metastasis in its tracks 🛑🛤️
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