Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MechTransition (Regulatory mechanisms controlling a new mechanical Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in zebrafish)

Although metastasis is the predominant cause of mortality in patients with cancer, how tumour cells invade to form metastases is not well understood. For a cancer cell to metastasise, it must first invade from sites where most solid tumours originate, the epithelia, the skin...