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Article: Nanotechnology shows cancer cells are 'softer' than normal cells
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- December 3, 2007
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London, Dec. 3 -- Scientists at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) have used cutting edge nanotechnology to measure the softness of cells, thereby differentiating cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples.
In the study, the researchers, for the first time were able to take living cells from patients and apply nanotechnology to analyze them and ascertain which were cancerous and which were not.
It may be possible that the nano science measurements provide a potential new method for detecting cancer, especially in cells from body cavity fluids where diagnosis using current methods poses a great ...