One way cancer specialists detect the disease is by examining cells and bodily fluids under a microscope, a time-consuming ...

New NE-AFM method measures nuclear stiffness in living cells. It shows cancer nuclei change softness with chromatin and environment, aiding diagnosis and treatment. By employing a technique called ...

Neuroblastoma cancer cells before (left) and after (right) chemotherapy. The black threads are the cell's internal scaffolding, which breaks apart during treatment. This damage should kill the cell, ...

Scientists have built a powerful and compact imaging system that can quickly and accurately tell the difference between ...

Follicular thyroid cancer is the second most common form of thyroid malignancy, following papillary carcinoma. It originates in the follicular cells of the thyroid — a small, butterfly-shaped gland at ...

(a) A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the nanoneedle probe used for the measurements. (b) Elasticity map of a 1 µm × 1 µm area on the nuclear surface, showing the change in elasticity ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a new method to precisely measure nuclear elasticity—the stiffness or softness ...