Dangerous Beauty

| magazine.ucsf.edu | January 01, 2024

Organoid image by Kutys Lab, UCSF

These cancer cells are on the march: They are migrating away from the human breast cancer tissue where they originated, in search of other tissues to invade. Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads. The striking images they capture show how cells’ own mechanisms of locomotion are hijacked to enable metastasis.

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