A team of Italian researchers working in the United States have made a breakthrough on brain tumour research, according to a study published in the journal Cancer Cell. The team led by Antonio Iavarone, deputy head of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Miami University Medical School, have discovered a piece of "deceit" which the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, carries out in its growth.

In order to trick the surrounding cells into letting it grow, the tumour, in fact, imitates healthy neurons, the study found. The progress of the glioblastoma was followed using protein maps and artificial intelligence, said the study in Cancer Cell.