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Caption: Scripps Research Institute biophysicist Peter Kuhn and colleagues have captured images of tumor cells circulating in the blood stream, such as this cluster of lung tumor cells (in red-blue) shown interacting with normal blood cells (green-blue) recovered from a blood sample of patient with lung cancer.
Credit: Image courtesy of the Kuhn lab, the Scripps Research Institute
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