Blocking macrophages from eating dead cancer cells suppresses tumor growth in fruit flies (IMAGE)

Nagoya University

Blocking macrophages from eating dead cancer cells suppresses tumor growth in fruit flies

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Left image: Tumor cells (green) and dying cancer cells (magenta). Right image: Blocking macrophages from eating dying cancer cells suppresses tumor growth in fruit flies. 

Credit

Hirooka et al., 2025

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