Tumours and tectonics: magnets making a mark
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Role of Rotating Magnetic Fields in Cancer
Bacteria behave like tiny rods or levels that start turning. When they do this in circulation, these rotation magnetic fields can help them start tumbling along blood vessel walls. This is a very important or crucial mechanism as we identified because it helps them to find gaps between blood vessels and get into tumor tissue. If there is a gap that they can crawl through, they're more likely to crawl through it.
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