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A study headed by researchers at City of Hope and the University of California, Berkeley has found that physical and mechanical properties of normal human mammary epithelial cells can offer a “functional readout” of biological age and breast cancer susceptibility.
The team created a novel, high-throughput microfluidic platform that can assess women’s breast cancer risk at the cellular level. The mechano-node-pore sensing (mechano-NPS) platform, which the researchers claim is the first of its kind, squeezes individual breast epithelial cells, creating a taxing environment to measure how they deform, recover, and behave under stress… Continue reading.
