Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. It often grows quietly in the body and is usually discovered only after it has already spread or reached an advanced stage. Because of ...

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

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, ...

Even when cancer surgery goes well, it’s far from guaranteed that all the cancer has been removed. The excised tumor is sent to a pathology lab, which analyzes it under a microscope to estimate how ...

The goal is not to replace the pathologist -- you probably don't want to trust your entire cancer screening to a machine just yet. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

(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 ...