As a pathologist: “blue is bad”. We use stains when looking at the cells under the microscope and essentially comes down to blue and pink (hematoxylin and eosin). Pink stains the cells cytoplasm and blue stains nucleic acids/nucleus. Usually cancer cells have a larger nucleus compared to the rest of the cell and making the tumor appear more blue.
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As a pathologist: “blue is bad”. We use stains when looking at the cells under the microscope and essentially comes down to blue and pink (hematoxylin and eosin). Pink stains the cells cytoplasm and blue stains nucleic acids/nucleus. Usually cancer cells have a larger nucleus compared to the rest of the cell and making the tumor appear more blue.