Team discovers new organelle involved in cancer metastasis March 10, 2021Princeton Some of Princeton’s leading cancer researchers were startled to discover that what they thought was a straightforward investigation into how cancer spreads through the body — metastasis — turned up evidence of liquid-liquid phase separations: the new field of biology research that investigates how liquid blobs of living materials merge into each other, similar to the movements seen in a lava lamp or in liquid mercury. “We believe this is the first time that phase separation has been implicated in ca...