Tuesday, February 21, 2017

'Sweet spot' where tissue stiffness drives cancer's spread

Researchers have now found that physical forces exerted between cancer cells and the ECM are enough to drive a shape change necessary for metastasis. Those forces converge on an optimal stiffness that allows cancer cells to spread.



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