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Stiffness Helps Stem Cells Sense and Snuff Metastatic Cancer (1 of 3)

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Stiffness Helps Stem Cells Sense and Snuff Metastatic Cancer (1 of 3)

image: The collagen network (shown in cyan) surrounding cancer cells (red) provides physical cues that represent a new target for detecting and treating metastatic cancer. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 26, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Liu at institution in University of California, Irvine in Irvine, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Mechanoresponsive stem cells to target cancer metastases through biophysical cues." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Linan Liu & Jenu V. Chacko]


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