Hopkins study shows extracellular viscosity linked to cancer spread

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Research findings from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center show how higher viscosity, or resistance to flow, of the extracellular fluid that surrounds cells enables cancer cells to migrate more rapidly from a primary tumor to other sites in the body.

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