The iSTARS project is pleased to support the launch of REDCap at the Lisbon School of Medicine, making a widely used research data management platform available to the FMUL research community.

A new study published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences has investigated how low doses of ionizing radiation, that can affect tissues and organs near a tumour during cancer treatment, may influence the formation of pre-metastatic niches in the lungs. This process involves changes in the lung tissue that make it more receptive to disseminated breast cancer cells settling and growing there later on – forming metastasis.