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Are biomechanical changes necessary for tumour progression?

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Cell biophysics sheds some new light on cancer by approaching this complex problem from a materials science perspective.

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Figure 1: Cell softening and cell proliferation.
Figure 2: Tumour growth.
Figure 3: Individual and collective migration of malignant versus normal cells.
Figure 4: Contractile cells in breast tumours.

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