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Bacterial Hitch-Hikers Within Tumors Accelerate the Spread of Colon Cancer Cells (1 of 1)

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Bacterial Hitch-Hikers Within Tumors Accelerate the Spread of Colon Cancer Cells (1 of 1)

image: Fusobacterium nucleatum (Green) inside of human colon cancer cells (Red, Blue). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 21, 2020, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Casasanta at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA; and colleagues was titled, "Fusobacterium nucleatum host-cell binding and invasion induces IL-8 and CXCL1 secretion that drives colorectal cancer cell migration." view more 

Credit: [Credit: Image courtesy of Daniel J. Slade]


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