NETs (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

NETs

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When lung tissue is chronically inflamed, dormant cancer cells are able to hijack gauzy "NETs" that spew from nearby white blood cells to re-enter the cell cycle and begin growing again. Dr. Mikala Egeblad and colleagues have figured out how this reawakening can seed metastatic tumors.

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Egeblad lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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