Joseph Mammano, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY and Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY.
Cell migration is the mechanism by which cancerous cells metastasize from primary tumors to invade other organs and tissues. A scratch assay was employed as an in vitro model of this process. A "wound" was created in plated human breast cancer cells and photographs were taken at various intervals to track the rate at which the cells migrated to close the wound. The influence of different adhesion substrate on cancer cell migration will be discussed.