Kilian, Lee and Fan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Kilian, Lee and Fan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois researchers found that the shape of a tumor may play a role in how cancer cells become primed to spread. From left: materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, graduate student Junmin Lee and veterinary medicine professor Timothy Fan.

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