What if cancer could be felt?
Cancer is read by how it looks and by its genes. A new research tool asks how it feels.
The story
To spread, a cancer cell has to squeeze through tissue and slip into a blood vessel, and according to ARTIDIS the cells most likely to do that tend to be softer. Its system presses a nanoscale probe on a fresh biopsy thousands of times, mapping how stiff or soft each spot is, in hours rather than weeks. The sample is not used up: it goes on to pathology, whole.
Three things to know
Cancer is also physical: cells that spread tend to be softer.
Thousands of nanoscale measurements turn a biopsy into a stiffness map.
The tissue stays intact for every standard test that follows.
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