Endothelial Cells Form a Network around Fibroblasts
Endothelial Cells Form a Network around Fibroblasts
Submitted by Christopher Turner of the Hynes Lab at the Koch Institute
MIT Department of Biology, Koch Institute at MIT
Christopher Turner
Hynes Lab, Koch Institute
Confocal Micrograph
"This image shows endothelial cells forming a network around some transformed fibroblasts. I was trying to develop an assay that replicates in the lab the process of tumor angiogenesis -- an important step in cancer progression."