How The Science Of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer And Predict The Future by Ed Yong. Wired. March 19, 2013.
The focus of this article is not healthcare or cancer. However the underlying principles of swarms may be used to describe dynamics involved in the spread of cancer cells. Here are a couple of key sentences: "Tumors spawn populations of rogue, mobile cells that align with and migrate into surrounding tissues, following a subset of trailblazing leader cells. That looks like a migrating swarm; figure out its algorithm and maybe you could divert it from vital organs or stop its progress."
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