Endothelial Cells Form a Network around Fibroblasts

Endothelial Cells Form a Network around Fibroblasts

Submitted by Christopher Turner of the Hynes Lab at the Koch Institute

MIT Department of Biology, Koch Institute at MIT

Christopher Turner
Hynes Lab, Koch Institute
Confocal Micrograph

"This image shows endothelial cells forming a network around some transformed fibroblasts.  I was trying to develop an assay that replicates in the lab the process of tumor angiogenesis -- an important step in cancer progression."

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