Leader-Follower Behavior (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

Leader-Follower Behavior

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Fluorescent biomarkers allowed Vanderbilt biomedical engineers to track the process of highly energized cancer cells leading clusters through tissue, then being replaced by followers as their energy waned. Each moving dot above is the nucleus of a cell.

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Reinhart-King Laboratory/Vanderbilt University

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