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Measure for Measure |
Of limited length
Continuously improving precision in length measurements increases understanding of our world and its phenomena, both at small and large scales, as Leo Gross reveals.
- Leo Gross
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News & Views |
The benefits of getting high
Standard rheology tells us how a cell responds to deformation. But ramping up the frequency reveals more about its internal dynamics and morphology, mapping a route to improved drug treatments — and possible insight into the malignancy of cancers.
- Klaus Kroy
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High-frequency microrheology reveals cytoskeleton dynamics in living cells
Microrheology of cells suggests that the dynamics of single filaments in the cytoskeleton dominate at high frequencies. This response can be used to detect differences between cell types and states — including benign and malignant cancer cells.
- Annafrancesca Rigato
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Subatomic-scale force vector mapping above a Ge(001) dimer using bimodal atomic force microscopy
Measuring vector quantities in nanoscale systems is challenging — often only scalar magnitudes can be experimentally obtained. Now, a multi-frequency atomic force microscopy method for probing the 3D force response of a Ge(001) surface is reported.
- Yoshitaka Naitoh
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- & Yasuhiro Sugawara
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In the frame
On thin ice