This image, captured by a team of researchers at the Koch Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, shows a microscopic device for analyzing how cancer cells move and migrate in the body.
This image, captured by a team of researchers at the Koch Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, shows a microscopic device for analyzing how cancer cells move and migrate in the body.
Salil Desai, Sangeeta Bhatia, Mehmet Toner and Daniel Irimia
Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Koch Institute
Epi-Fluorescence and Phase Contrast Micrograph
Much of the deadly impact of cancer is due to metastasis, the spread of cancer cells to distant tissues. But what drives a cancer cell’s movementthrough the body? Here, researchers investigate the role of mitochondria, the “powerhouses” inside cancer cells, as the cells travel through tiny fluid-filled channels.
Salil Desai explains how and why he took this image of cancer cells moving through microscopic channels.
