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  • Tiny exports signal big shifts in cancer tissue, researchers find

    Jan 25, 2017 3:15 pm by Liz Ahlberg TouchstoneResearch
    A constellation of vesicles, tiny transport bubbles here visualized as blue dots. Image courtesy of Stephen Boppart and Haohua Tu

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    • A constellation of vesicles, tiny transport bubbles here visualized as blue dots. Image courtesy of Stephen Boppart and Haohua Tu

    Microscopic shifts in metabolism and increases in tiny transport vesicles out of tumor cells preface larger changes to the tumor environment and could prepare the way for cancerous cells to spread and metastasize