Virtual Cancer Cell (IMAGE)

Duke University

Virtual Cancer Cell

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An artistic rendition of how a new computational modeling system simulates a cancer cell traveling through the human body. To account for millions of cellular interactions, it only creates detailed simulations of cells in the immediate vicinity of the cancer cell as it circulates in the blood stream.

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Duke University

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