Biomechanical measurements performed with an atomic force microscope (AFM) have shown that it is possible to distinguish cancer cells from normal cells. The results of these measurements could ...

While scientists and medical experts have been looking at cells under the microscope for many centuries ... An important example is cancer metastasis, where the motility of cancerous cells ...

Both types of therapy put cancer cells under stress, with the goal of causing ... been known to scientists since the invention of the microscope and have been observed by pathologists in cancerous ...

The 'cell of origin' of the second most common lung cancer and the way that it becomes dominant ... Dr Sandra Gómez-López, first author of the study from UCL Division of Medicine, said: "Under normal ...

In fact, many of the body’s mutated cells don’t die—they just stop dividing abnormally and behave like normal cells. “The most common way that mutated cells escape cancer is just by ...

However, cancer cells accumulate genetic mutations and acquire the ability to divide and grow indefinitely. HeLa cells are unique in many ways. The normal human cells contain 46 chromosomes ...