Device “Hears” Disease Through Structures Housing Cells
TBMG-37477
08/01/2020
- Content
Similar to how a picked lock indicates someone has broken into a building, the stiffening of a structure surrounding cells in the human body can indicate that cancer is invading other tissue. Monitoring changes to this structure, called the extracellular matrix, would give researchers another way to study the progression of disease. But detecting changes to the extracellular matrix is hard to do without damaging it.
- Citation
- "Device “Hears” Disease Through Structures Housing Cells," Mobility Engineering, August 1, 2020.