Social behaviors such as altruism, where one self-sacrifices for collective benefits, critically influence an organism’s survival and responses to the environment. Such behaviors are widely exemplified in nature but have been underexplored in cancer cells which are conventionally seen as selfish competitive players. This multidisciplinary study by Dr Leong Sai Mun and team explores altruism and its mechanism in breast cancer cells and its contribution to chemoresistance.

Read more: https://molecular-cancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12943-023-01896-7

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