Human colon cancer cells (IMAGE)

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Human colon cancer cells

Caption

Human colon cancer cells; cell nuclei are stained red and the protein E-cadherin — a cell adhesion molecule — is stained green. When E-cadherin decreases, it may signal the start of a process in which cells migrate and become invasive.

Credit

Image created by Urbain Weyemi, Christophe E. Redon and William M. Bonner for the NCI Center for Cancer Research

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License

Public Domain

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