Cancer is the leading cause of mortality in France. In the last 40 years, survival rates have increased for several types of cancer, such as breast or prostate cancer. However, brain cancer is still an incurable disease, as it usually becomes resistant to therapy and relapses in a relatively short time. The outcome is almost inexorably the patient death. Researchers headed by Chiara Zurzolo at the Institut Pasteur have studied tunnelling nanotubes in glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain cancer. 

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