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

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that the motion of unlabeled cells can be used to tell whether they are cancerous or healthy. They observed malignant ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...