#metastasis

Cancer Moves

Cancer cells can invade tissues by what were thought to be two ways – one that activates enzymes to break down the tissue ahead and the other that pushes through by mechanical might (amoeboid movement). Now by studying cancer cell assemblies called spheroids, it's revealed that in fact the two modes while distinct both combine active tunnelling with enzyme breakdown by matrix-degradative metalloproteinases.

Read the published research article here

Video from work by Adam W. Olson and colleagues

Cancer Biology Department, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), April 2026

its me.... the woker.... why so queerious.....

a little concept design for hatsune miku for a song in the works.... its very close to being done, but will take a bit of time to actually get posted due to focusing on getting other songs done at the same time, +needing a pv planned and all the art for that and what have you.

And I’m thinking a lot about this H5O fandom (to which I came too late) and open vs closed canon fandoms.

Hmm. See, I get that fans go where the fannish energy is. But I hope fans who moved elsewhere get what a gift we got at the end of Five-O. Yes, Peter Lenkov is a putz in every way. But his bid to throw Steve and Catherine together on that plane was seriously awkward. And fans have written stories highlighting why that is. Clearly, Cole contacted Catherine re the cipher and told her about Steve’s plans. But, while Cole might not have known better, she sure should have. And her showing up makes her look so much more like Doris.

Now, if Steve had called Cath first, I might have believed the two might be okay together. But.. there was nothing there—no indication at all that Steve was pining for her while she was gone on her mission. And that handholding? Nothing compared to the hospital scene.

ETA: and the dialogue on the plane? Very, very odd. And awkward.