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 ...

It is recommended that women between 30 and 65 undergo co-testing with Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Pap smear testing every five years or Pap testing alone every three years.

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions, it can temporarily fold ...

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, ...

By Sola Ogundipe Scientists have found that a common brain cancer may begin in normal-looking brain cells years before a ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have developed a simpler and more efficient method to recover ...

(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 ...