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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune defenders and biding their time until conditions are ripe for establishing a ...

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 ...