When cells break off from an invading cancer, is it a single cell or a big clump? This changes how dangerous the cancer is. In Wei's paper, in collaboration w/Kostas Konstantopoulos, we model how groups of cells break off from an invading cancerous front, and see when you get single cells vs groups
Reposted from Wei Wang (汪巍)
Confinement, Jamming, and Adhesion in Cancer Cells Dissociating from a Collectively Invading Strand, W. Wang, R. A. Law, E. P. Ipiña, K. Konstantopoulos, and B. A. Camley, PRX Life 3 (2025) 🎉
go.aps.org/41xXR4N
#Biophysics #Cancer #Jamming #CollectiveBehavior #Mechanobiology #SoftMatter #Metastasis

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