How cells change the pace of their steps

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These frames of a video of a Dictyostelium discoideum cell crawling on a elastic substrate shows the magnitude of the stresses as color contours. Credit: UC San Diego
These frames of a video of a Dictyostelium discoideum cell crawling on a elastic substrate shows the magnitude of the stresses as color contours. Credit: UC San Diego

Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered how cells of higher organisms change the speed at which they move, a basic biological discovery that may help researchers devise ways to prevent cancer cells from spreading throughout the body.


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