Submitted by Asaf Spiegel, Jeffrey Wyckoff, Ferenc Reinhard, and Robert Weinberg in the Weinberg Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute
"In this image we are tracking tumor cells as they are making their way from the blood circulation and into the lung in which they form cancer metastases. This image was taken to give us insight regarding the extravasation of tumor cells from the circulation into sites of metastasis in the lung."
Keywords: 2014, Whitehead Institute, multiphoton microscopy, metastasis, cancer cells, MIT
Collection: Image Awards 2014