Prodding leukemia cells with nanoprobes could provide cancer clues

Friday, June 3, 2016 - 08:21 in Biology & Nature

Giving blood cells a gentle squeeze can reveal a great deal about their health. To find out more, researchers have used a tiny force probe to compare the mechanical responses of healthy and cancerous hematopoietic cells (biological structures that help to renew blood in the body).

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