Cancer remains one of the world’s most serious health threats, especially when it spreads beyond its original site. That ...

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 ...

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

Annemarie Ianos is a senior at Baruch College majoring in biomedical sciences and pursuing research in computational chemistry with Assistant Professor Baofu Qiao. Recently, she presented her research ...

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, ...

(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 ...