Lab-on-a-chip Ultrasonic Platform to Monitor Tissue Culture Stiffness (VIDEO)

Purdue University

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The stiffening of a structure surrounding cells in the human body can indicate that cancer is invading other tissue. Being able to monitor changes to this structure, called the extracellular matrix, would give researchers another way to study the progression of disease.

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Purdue University/Erin Easterling

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