Stanford researchers establish center for physics-based simulations of biological structures
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... metastatic tumor cells secrete a protein known as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). VEGF stimulates ...essels, Src kinases respond to this by causing the vascular cell cadherins to break apart and allow the tumor cell to get out of the circulation and into an env...Bristol scientists find key to unlock body's own cancer defence
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