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IMAGE: Tamara Weiss, PhD, and Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, discover that the uncontrolled growth of neuroblastomas (green tumor cells) is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells (magenta). view more
Credit: Photo: Sabine Taschner-Mandl, PhD, and Tamara Weiss, PhD
Copyright: St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute
Image: Immunofluorescence image of Schwann cells (magenta) and neuroblastoma cells (green)
Copyright: Weiss T, Taschner-Mandl S et al.,.
A factor that turns malignant tumors into benign ones? - That is exactly what scientists at St. Anna Children s Cancer Research Institute have discovered. Together with colleagues from the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna (Faculty of Chemistry), they studied tumors of the peripheral nervous system in children, namely neuroblastomas. The scientists discovered that the uncontrolled growth of benign neuroblastomas is stopped by a signal molecule produced by Schwann cells