{"id":229701,"date":"2026-01-24T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mechanical-view-on-metastasis-tumor-cell-viscosity-found-to-guide-key-steps-in-cancer-spread"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:13:23","slug":"a-mechanical-view-on-metastasis-tumor-cell-viscosity-found-to-guide-key-steps-in-cancer-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mechanical-view-on-metastasis-tumor-cell-viscosity-found-to-guide-key-steps-in-cancer-spread","title":{"rendered":"A mechanical view on metastasis: Tumor cell viscosity found to guide key steps in cancer spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mechanical-view-on-metastasis-tumor-cell-viscosity-found-to-guide-key-steps-in-cancer-spread2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the original tumor and settle in other parts of the body to form metastases. On their way, they have to be distributed via the body\u2019s own transport system, such as blood or the lymphatic vascular system, and overcome numerous mechanical hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>A multidisciplinary research team has investigated how the mechanical properties of tumor cells circulating through blood vessels influence their metastatic pathways. The results, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02462-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, provide important building blocks for understanding metastasis.<\/p>\n<p>Tumor cells leaving the original tissue and settling in distant organs of the body is referred to as metastasis of the primary tumor. Since in most cases it is not the primary tumor but metastases that cause cancer-related deaths, a fundamental understanding of how tumor cells overcome the body\u2019s own barriers is crucial for successful cancer treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the original tumor and settle in other parts of the body to form metastases. On their way, they have to be distributed via the body\u2019s own transport system, such as blood or the lymphatic vascular system, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}