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Nature Nanotechnology 2, 748 - 749 (2007)
Published online: 2 December 2007 | doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.397
Subject Categories: Nanomedicine | Structural properties
Nanomedicine: Elastic clues in cancer detection
Subra Suresh1
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Subra Suresh is at School of Engineering and Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA.
e-mail: ssuresh@mit.edu
Abstract
In vitro nanomechanical studies have shown that cultured cancer cells are elastically softer than healthy ones, and new measurements on cells from cancer patients suggest that this mechanical signature may be a powerful way to detect cancer in the clinic.
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