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A tip for diagnosing cancer

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Stiffness measurements of tumour biopsies and single cells show unique fingerprints that identify the different stages of cancer.

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Figure 1: Potential use of AFM in breast cancer diagnosis.

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  1. Małgorzata Lekka is in the Department of Applied Spectroscopy at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland,

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Lekka, M. A tip for diagnosing cancer. Nature Nanotech 7, 691–692 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.196

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