Bone Metastasis (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Bone Metastasis

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Microscope image of breast cancer cells (red) growing in the bone where close proximity to bone blood vessels (cyan) turns on a reporter (green) that indicates when a stem cell-associated signaling program is turned on.

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Courtesy of Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang

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