Platelet Doppelgängers Tackle Thrombosis and Cancer Metastasis (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Platelet Doppelgängers Tackle Thrombosis and Cancer Metastasis (1 of 3)

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A side-by-side comparison of a normal platelet (left) and the platelet decoy (right) under the microscope. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 13, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.-L. Papa at institution in location; and colleagues was titled, "Platelet decoys inhibit thrombosis and prevent metastatic tumor formation in preclinical models."

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A.-L. Papa <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2019)

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