Like racecars and geese, cancer cells draft their way to new tumor sites

By Heidi Hall, Vanderbilt University

Fluorescent biomarkers allowed Vanderbilt biomedical engineers to track the process of highly-energized cancer cells. Credit: Reinhart-King Laboratory/Vanderbilt University

Building on the relatively new discovery that metastatic cancer cells leave tumors and travel in clusters, not singles, a Vanderbilt University team of biomedical engineers learned the process is aided by leader-follower behavior.

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