Simulations Showing Cancerous Multiple Myeloma Cells Getting Stuck between Micropillars in a New Fil (IMAGE)

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Simulations Showing Cancerous Multiple Myeloma Cells Getting Stuck between Micropillars in a New Fil

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Simulations showing cancerous multiple myeloma cells, also known as cCPCs, getting stuck between micropillars in a new filter device, described in Biomicrofluidics. Blue outline is the cCPC and fluid is flowing is from top to bottom.

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Lidan You, University of Toronto

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