Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: the force journey of a tumor cell.

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Published in Cancer Metastasis Rev on June 01, 2009

Authors

Sanjay Kumar1, Valerie M Weaver

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1: Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA. skumar@berkeley.edu

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