Virtual In Vivo Metastasis Model Created
By Biotechdaily staff writers
Posted on 30 Jul 2008
An American professor has created a virtual supercomputer to study metastasis. Posted on 30 Jul 2008
Dr. Muhammad Zaman, who is head of the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at the University of Texas (Austin, USA), is exploiting the down time of more than 1,000 computers through the Internet to study cell migration in a virtual reality. Moreover, he is using the low-cost computer grid to advance research into a new generation of cancer drugs.
"We have launched a global effort to recreate the in vivo environment of cancer cells in a computer model. This allows us to perform virtual experiments and study processes that are too costly or technically very difficult to study,” reported Dr. Zaman. "By recreating this whole system of processes inside a cancer cell, we will be in a position to fully comprehend the problem and hopefully identify targets that will one day translate into anti-cancer drugs.”
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